[godwulf]

Nice try, Jaguar...but arguments on the basis of fairness and equity are wasted on those who see Arabs as less worthy of consideration and sympathy than non-Arabs.

Did I glean correctly from some of your posts that you live in the U.K.? If so, I'm sure that you've at least gotten some idea, from this and other forums, how deeply ingrained and virulent is the pro-Israeli prejudice alive in the U.S. There is literally no way to break through it with logic or appeals to reason...or to attempt to do so without being immediately branded an anti-Semite, of course.

I'm afraid that the combination of widespread christian fundamentalist premillenialism, in which the state of Israel continues to hold a 'special place in God's plan', and the fact that a large percentage of Jewish Israelis are of European descent (White), there is only one politically correct view, in America, for one to take.