[k2blader]

Thank you. That was my general understanding.

But for lack of a better way of putting it, I was wondering if there's more to it than that.

Aruanan's comment that he/she "was raised from earliest childhood to be an ardent Zionist" especially caught my attention.

[carton253]

I think Aruanan was saying that he/she was raised to support Israel's right to exist as a country. I consider myself a Zionist... a rather passionate one.