"I'm too tired to put something genuine out there..."

Too tired to spell and punctuate properly, too tired to make a cogent argument, too tired to do anything but troll...hope you got some rest.

"While so many Americans are subsisting on food stamps, losing their homes, and accumulating credit card debt they will never be able to pay off, the US is giving Israel $3 billion in direct foreign aid every year and another $12-17 billion in indirect aid such as valuable military equipment deemed “scrapped,” loan guarantees, and preferential contracts. Israel is an affluent country with more than 10,000 millionaires and, according to the International Monetary Fund, was one of the few economies that weathered the 2008 financial storm nearly unscathed."

And in return for all that we get one of the worst allies we've ever had. Like a needy girlfriend who takes and takes and takes, and still bitches that you're doing everything wrong.

I say we need to ask more, not less, questions about our aid policy with Israel.

Meh, the Middle East, whatcha gonna do?!?!? Other than renaming it Crazy Town.

I have noticed that, too. It's lame.

Does this mean it will finally become fashionable to break out my dusty old racist Anti-Joo jokes to entertain at cocktail parties again?

Here's a gem (jem?):

What's the worst thing about being a black Jew?

Having to sit in the back of the oven.

Being critical of Israeli policies is not the same as being anti-Semitic.

If there is a God, I bet he hates organized religions.

I'Anon, I think the Jewish people that live in Israel are remarkable.

I read a book called" To Jerusalem and Back" by Saul Bellows. I would rather take my chances with the Jews coming to our aid, instead of Palestine. Your going to think what you want ,but don't assume so much.

A little country, for years trying to live peacefully in an area they found sanctity. They were going to be extinct if they did not find a home.

The people who had families killed in the Holocaust have and had, a living nightmare until they were rescued.This goes on today in so many ways, and I think Anne Frank was a book that taught so many of us in a certain generation, humility to a degree.

What do you a call a black jew in 2014?
A Palestinian.

It is one thing to question the policies of an ostensible ally; the current Netanyahu government strikes me as intransigent and catering a bit too much to some rather unsavory extremist elements in the Israeli population. Nontheless, that is simply the peculiarities of Israeli domestic politics.

But anti-Semitism is the refuge of fools, failures and paranoid personalities who adamantly insist upon blaming a tiny minority of people not only for all that is wrong in the world, but blaming them as well for all that is wrong in their personal lives; that kind of thinking is patently absurd on its face.

That having been said, the Palestinians - for their part - must learn to accept that the state of Israel is not going to magically disappear one fine Wednesday afternoon and learn to live in peace with their neighbors, and let's face it, their cousins. The Palestinians may never come to love the Israelis, but they must learn to live side-by-side with them in peace and put aside their fatuous fantasies of Israel being "pushed into the sea". Then there will be peace, and both sides are going to have to strive to not only achieve it, but more importantly, maintain it.

Israel is not the same as "Jews." Israel is a country and subject to criticism like all countries.

"anti-semitism". See, right-wing warmongers like to play the race card, too.

Hitler's last words to his personal aide: “…to break up and scatter to the West.” To which his aid replied, “For whom should we fight now?” Hitler, in a monotone voice, said, “For the coming man.” Or according to Erich Kuby who interviewed Hitler’s valet Heinz Linge, Hitler said, “Für den Mann der kommt nach mir” (“For the man who comes after me”).