Reply #7: I don't see why it took 7 pages

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I read it and there seems to be a couple of basic points: "the Jews" aren't in control, and it is anti-semitic to say so. Further, legitimate criticism of Israel is okay and often warranted.

Those two points are such trivial no-brainers I could say 'em in two sentences. Oh, I just did.

Other than that, there is some basic history, but mostly it is glossed over when it comes to details. Hence, useless if you know anything about the region.

There is one piece of stupidity: the mention of the US invasion of Iraq and the pre-emptive war of 1967 undertook by Israel in the same breath. To compare the two in any way defies belief. Israel could at least make a defensible case of "self-protection"; the US can make none and indeed does not actually want to make such a case to the world.