EAO; you must have me confused with someone that has indicated they'll debate this topic with you. I will say again that I made myself undeniably and perfectly clear with my first post. Yep, I'm biased and will remain so. Nope, don't give a rat's patoot about what the Amnesty International, The Arab League for the Betterment of Goat Herders or MADD have to say on THIS issue. Yep, I'm fixed in my position and Yep, I'd be the one with the baseball bat beating on any member of Hamas, Hezbolla or other Palestinian organization that preaches the bullcrap to their young that all Jews are a scourge on the earth while bombing busloads of innocent civilians etc., etc., and no I do not equate those retaliatory measure taken by Israel on the same scale.
Now are you satisfied that Im a racist bigot? If not what additional help can I provide to delude you of any political correctness you might think me guilty of. I do not want to be a member of that club and further don't give a flying fig for what you might think of me.
Summation: Jews have been and continue to be persecuted by everyone who needs a scapegoat and your surmisal they do not face extinction today simply highlights your ignorance of exactly why Iran is busily going about building nuclear weapons.
Palestinians were treated just as the Roma have been in Europe, ostracized and used as bargaining chips by there own people. They have not been persecuted by the Israelites, they've been kept at arms length as much as is possible given the confines of the real-estate.
An apologist for Israel I'm certainly not as I believe no apology is necessary if you take that aforementioned baseball bat to the heads of people trying to wipe you off the face of the planet. Nope, not deflection when I point out that were palestinians to devote half as much energy into co-existing peacefully with Jews as they do in throwing rocks, bombs or anything else they can get their hands on at them we wouldn't even be having this exchange today.
I'm a staunch defender of the jews in both thier right to exist and to defend themselves against the very same sort of terroist attacks that every other country that has endured them is suspending personal liberties over at this time.
Please ask yourself a question that I've never heard posed before, given the worlds seemingly tepid response to the avowed determination of the Arab countries eradicating Israel and all jews, what if a third party were to propose eradicating the world of all Arabs? Which eradication premise would leave the word a better, more humane, democratic, peaceful place in which to live? Ooops!