Thanks CL. I can’t imagine you had much of an appetite after spending so much time on the Response website. (Good Ramadan strategy, i suppose…).

You are absolutely correct about Israel and the religious right. This is a discussion I have on an ongoing basis with many people in my circle of (Jewish) friends. The opinions are split. There are those who believe that Jews need to take their friends as they find them, and that Israel is hardly in a position to be choosy about unqualified support these days. These folks embrace people like Hagee and the organization Christians United for Israel (CUFI) and treat them as friends of the Jews and Israel. Then there are others, like myself, who believe that you might be safe in a temporary, limited alliance with evangelicals, but that when you lay down with dogs, you invariably get up with fleas. When your “friend” has ulterior motives and is using you towards his own ends - which are incompatible with your own desires - you are not dealing with a true friend. As the Joker asks Batman: “Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?”