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The question was wrong. and Obama's answer was wrong too. All this talk about 'kishkes' or 'guts' - it isn't about that. That isn't where you feel love for Israel, or for anything or anyone else. It's possible none of these people have ever felt love, but when you do feel it, you feel it in your chest, not your 'gut'. In the area conventionally referred to as the heart, but actually it is in the center of the chest, around the lungs, whereas the heart is off to one side.
Now one could say (the real devious ones, like Phil Weiss, could say) it's because these Palm Beach Jews are hard boiled machers, ashamed of showing their feelings.
Well, when it gets to juggling with nuclear world war, that isn't good enough any more. In fact, probably the thing that has allowed me to get past all the Electro Robots of this world, here, there, in Israel itself,and so on, is that I am really not ashamed to feel it, right in my chest, and bleed about it too, very publicly. So far, no one has had the 'guts' to accuse me of faking this.
