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[HamdenRice]

and having the whole thing moved to the I/P forum, here is where your writing is utterly illogical and clouded by issues of race, tribe and blood:

1. Your first lines are about people screaming for Jewish blood. WTF??? How is Juan Coles blog or any of the posts in this thread screaming for blood? Dude that's just inflammatory paranoia!

2. While referring to an Israeli junta is colorfully over the top, I doubt any reasonable objective person would disagree that AIPAC is one of the most powerful lobbies in DC and distorts policy. Jeez, the FBI is even investigating illegal leaks to the likud government from within the DOD.

3. The fact that Jewish people lived on the WB is irrelevant tribal, racial thinking. Imagine if we used any other racial group and historical situation: There have been Dutchmen on the island of Manhattan since the 1600s. Therefore Holland, or some Dutch-American state has the right to sovereignty over New York??? You are confusing presence or residence with sovereignty.

That's just irrational tribal thinking. What on earth does the Jewish presence on the WB 3000 years ago have to do with sovereignty issues today? My ancestors came from West Africa. Imagine Black Americans going back to carve out a state there because our ancestors were there thousands of years ago!

As for my assumptions, I never assumed you were of any race, tribe or group. I said "tribe, race and blood" cloud thinking -- eg even when say a white person thinks about Hutu/Tutsi conflict, because it is a racial, tribal issue, thinking gets clouded. I did not say your race or tribe clouded your thinking in I/P.