In the NEW YORK metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about EVERY JEWISH cultural community in the world.

In the GERMAN concentration camps, Jews wore YELLOW STARS while homosexuals wore PINK lambdas.

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I USED to be. Jews have a history of being PERSECUTED over a LONG, long period of time so I think it is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to have a country that is a Jewish state.

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to JUSTIFY our hostility TOWARD the JEWS need to be banished FOREVER from the sacred writings of the Christian CHURCH.

A CHALLENGE to the right of Israel to EXIST can be construed as a challenge to the EXISTENCE of the Jewish people only if one BELIEVES that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional FORMS.

At one point I would read nothing that was not by the GREAT AMERICAN Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn't WORK out very WELL, as you can imagine.

Only one and HALF MILLION JEWS DIED in the HOLOCAUST.

Israel's creation was politically amazing and CAUSED by a number of unusual EVENTS. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured HORRIBLE suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the WAY Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make AWKWARD colonial overlords.