Bslev, you can relax, you do not need to feel threatened by me. My attitudes and beliefs will not affect the world situation one iota nor will they impinge on you and/or "'your people". That is true and will remain true even if your very mistaken judgments about my attitudes and beliefs were, in some parallel universe, found to be correct. And, you will never need to put your trust in me so you can relax on that point too.
 As to your habit most every time you are mad at someone of making a big deal about how you bravely post with your real name while you infer that your target is a coward for using an anonymous avatar, get over it. The people you agree with also use an avatar, for the most part, and when the reasons for that are what the discussion is about you agree that there is often a good reason. So you might consider the fact that cheap shots get old pretty quick and soon you look like little more than a cheap shot artist.
 I get as rude as just about anyone around here but I try to follow a rule of never saying something on line that I wouldn't say to a person's face. Maybe if we were talking face to face and we were both a bit angry you would hurl an insult like calling me "...nothing more than a neutered puppy in a basement with a bottle." Maybe you would say something like that to my face and maybe you would get away with it, but I have had enough physical confrontations in my life, [and yes, I have slinked away from a few of them because I thought I would get the juice pounded out of me if I didn't. How about you? Ever had someone push your nose over next to your ear? ] that I am not impressed by fighting words cast with all the bravado you exhibit from a thousand miles away, so why don't you put a lid on that faux macho crap, Bruce.

 Bruce, may I call you Bruce, Bruce? you have told a few stories about your children and though you might not believe it, I believe that they are just as fine as you say and will be fine adults and a credit to their community and to their parents. That is maybe the only thing about which I care whether you believe me or not and that is only because I want to say a few things about my two children that I hope you believe.
 First, though, something about me. I know that I am capable of holding unjust biases against a "people'. I know it because there was a period of some years when I did. During that period I did not like any Vietnamese person. I did not like their culture, I did not like their nasal sing-song voices, and I did not even like the looks of their most beautiful women. It wasn't an overt strong feeling, it wasn't always an active feeling by any means, it was just a general reaction when I saw one or when they were mentioned.
 Nothing in my childhood and upbringing had predisposed me to holding such a prejudice, it's just that the Vietnamese and I had been trying to kill each other for a while and it took a while after that stopped to get over how successful they had been against so many of my friends.
 When I had been home for about a year I drove to Baytown Texas to visit my best friend from the Magical Mystery Tour we had shared. He had gone home a bit before me and I didn't have any information with which to find him except the city he lived in. He had a somewhat unusual last name and I figured that would help in a small place which turned out to not be so small. I finally got hold of his dad whom I had met along with his mother and sister once at a club near Ft. Hood. His dad knew the place I was calling from and told me a beer joint close by where I could meet him. To make this part of my story a bit shorter I will recount one bit of of the conversation we had over a few cold ones. He said,"You know how Ralph was, the nicest boy anyone ever knew. Ralph got married soon after he got home, his wife lives with us now. Ralph is gone, we don't know where. We think he is in Houston. All we know about him now is that he is always angry. He is a different person. What happened to you guys over there?
 I believe it was thinking about my lost friend, the lost one who was still alive, which set me to thinking why he had changed and what a sad thing that was. It helped me start looking at my own life. I came to realize that I had no reason to hate my previous enemy. They were not the ones responsible. As to who was responsible for the state, maybe the fate, of my friends, I shifted my blame to its rightful place, the people who callously cause, aid, or abet killing contrived enemies or real enemies that needn't be enemies but were made to be for some assholes big geo-political scheme. They still piss me off. I won't get over it and it is something I won't apologize for regardless who it offends. The scheming goes on and I sometimes speculate and other times I pay attention to the speculations of others. I'm not always perfectly accurate about who the bad guys are. Tough shit.  
  Back to my story. I had married too, maybe in a misguided attempt to get a normal life and it was by then too late for any personal change I might make to save that union, but that failure which was mostly my fault was another spur towards getting my shit together and not letting myself be a victim and not then victimizing those around me that loved me and whom I tried to love in return.  I think I largely succeeded. I didn't get over being an occasional jerk and often a complete asshole, but I had come to know that no one else was to blame for that. The most important thing I did was to let go of any ill will towards the Vietnamese. No problem in my life was their fault.  
 Why do I bother with this story? I guess I just feel like it.
 I came to have two children, a boy first then a girl. I honestly do not take credit for their many good qualities, their mother was the good influence, but I can proudly say that they are as unbiased and as color blind as anyone could hope to be and that is only one of the things I love about them and that makes me proud of them. I believe that if I had been a bigot that they would have got some of it. They didn't. My daughter's best friend in high school was a Hispanic boy from the Rio Grand Valley, her longest boyfriend was a big hulking American Indian, and her group included other minorities. My son was much the same. As an example, since he moved away we try to take a road trip each year by motorcycle. A couple years ago he found that a friend would be at Yellowstone at a time when we could meet him. I had heard enough about this guy that I felt I knew him a bit, though we had never met.When we got there they made contact by cell phone and we went to meet them at Old Faithful. I asked how we would spot him. No problem he said, there he is now. It was a black guy about six foot six and towered over most of the crowd. Easy to spot. In all I had heard about him, being black had never had a reason to come up. He is a good guy and that was enough.  And remember what I said about once not even liking the looks of the most beautiful Vietnamese women? I am so glad I got over what I once felt and my kids got none of it. My daughter-in-law is a first generation Vietnamese, a fine woman, she is beautiful and so are my two grandchildren.
 Odds are my children know some Jews but I honestly don't know because that would probably never be a part of the description of those friends that would mean anything to my kids. They would be unlikely to think it indicated any characteristic.
 Now back to our little pissing match.
You are still so damned angry about that article by Raimondo and maybe you have some reason by your own lights but to me it was fair speculation in an atmosphere full of speculation and questioning that would not have raised a single eyebrow had it been speculation about any group composed largely of people with any specific denominator other than "Jew". Tough shit. That aint my fault and it aint my problem and despite what you think, I don't put the explanation of what I see as problems with Israel as being because it is a country of Jews. I know it is a country of humans and that means a  number of them suck at being humane.
 Before that whole blowup was over I posted two more essays, one that came out that day and one from two years before, which did the very same thing as Raimondo by linking individuals with groups which had an established history. To be fair, next time you call Raimondo the worst things you can conceive you should include Bacevich and Blumenthal, but, I suppose, since their essays were better documented and they are more widely respected you chose to stick with the easier target and not mention their speculation one single time.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175597/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_eve...

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175334/tomgram:_max_blumenthal,_the_grea...

  "Why do you deserve understanding or the benefit of the doubt, particularly when you also think it's OK to explore when it's OK to compare Jews to Nazis.  Do you have any idea how perverse that is?"

 You have mentioned that Nazi crap several times. What are you referring to? Did Raimondo do that and so I am guilty or do you think I did it somewhere? If you are accusing me of comparing Jews to Nazis get specific and identify exactly what I said. If it is something Raimondo did in his piece then go play with yourself and get over it, I don't have to agree with every part or even any part of what someone writes before I can offer it for others to consider.

You spread the most vile speculation without any consideration of the historical significance of what you spread about Zionists being responsible for dead Americans in Libya.

You imply that I may be okay with individual Jews but that I definitely have problem with the Jewish people. That is exactly backasswards. It is some few individual Jews which I have a problem with and that is based on their actions, not their race or ethnicity or religion or where they are from or what they look like. It is based on what they do.
 You once went ape-shit crazy when you thought I insinuated you had a dual loyalty and went on to declare your deep abiding love for, and patriotism to, America, and that I was all kinds of bad for suggesting different. Which I didn't do. Today you remind us again of your deep unapologetic love of Israel and of "your people". I don't question any of that but I have noticed an inconsistency in your reactions. Every single criticism I have made of the actions of the Israeli government I have made loudly and often about the U.S government. You have never gone ape-shit crazy because you thought criticizing America meant I had some "perverse, warped, dangerous" view of Americans that caused me to spread "poison" about the very nature of Americans. You just will not allow yourself to see that it is the actions I am protesting, not all the people of any group or any nation.
You can hold your grudge against me as long as you want but you would be more credible next time you go off on me if you did it based on something current. The story and videos and pictures I linked to today are not speculation. Israel did execute that man today on a city street and did it with the certain knowledge that it would likely kill other innocents. It did. Some of them children whose parents and friends and countrymen will become even more completely hardened in their feelings of hate and their intent to retaliate. The situation there has become full of evil intent on both sides. If you think Israel is above criticism you are a fucking moron. If you just can't stand to hear it from me, well, again, tough shit.