"Wouldn't it be more intellectually honest to admit you only have a pedestrian awareness of the subject?"
Um, in a sense, that is what I did. As I said, I am a moderately well-informed citizen, and I stand by that. I don't want to argue this point anymore, because it is a very stupid argument for one as well-read as yourself to be having.
Maybe I am stupid though, because I have no idea what this is supposed to mean: " I consider it sophomoric to even attempt to inject it as an mitigate."
Are you claiming that the US does NOT have a close association with Isreal? That the Arab world is incorrect in this assumption? If so, by all means, proceed!
Really, give me one positive argument, just one. I'm begging you.
Why does it matter if we do? We also have a close association with Canada, England, and some others. Why do Arabs who believe in creating a giant Islamic state have such a problems with the Jews having a state? Why the enormous hatred? There is something very unnatural in their hate --- something that comes directly from the Koran.