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Thanks for that. I like it. I'll read the book. :)

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Wasn't aware that Jews were behind the secular effort to end Christianity. Might be true to the extent the new Democratic party seems intent on ending religion but that pretty much includes all religions. Perhaps this started back in 1984 when Reagan got the attention of the religious right as abortion became politically charged. I tried to get abortion removed from the Republican platform but it then has become a wedge issue exploited by both parties. In return religion itself has become polarized which is not particularly a good thing IMHO.

I've learned a bit. Will pass these reviews to my Jewish friend.

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The long story of pretending to make sense of the Jewish People by "gentiles" like Kevin MacDonald always seems to channel the same oblivious "self interest" that is supposed to be so uniquely identified among "the Jews". I read your earlier comment Graham, and this spin on the Old Testament is completely wrong, based on the plain language of scripture.

The Canaanites (in the Bible) were "bad people", devoted to child sacrifice and numerous horrors listed in the text. Evidently, they were offending everyone, and dominated the area from militarized city states. The Israelite (not "the Jews") were agricultural, pastoral people that made a confederation of 12 tribes, and settled the land much like Americans in the colonial days.

Making inane comparisons with the modern colonial history of Israel today is off base, there were few Jews in "Palestine" 150 years ago, but there were very few people there at all. The entire population of what became BRITISH PALESTINE in 1920 was less than half a million c. 1882, and the "Palestinians" are not some aborigines that were evicted from that empty waste.

Palestine is a sliver of land that is indistinct from the whole East Med littoral, and it is part of the vast, imperial history of Arab Civilization. Most Palestinian Arabs today are due the massively high 3rd world birthrates, like the rest of the Arab World. They are as much "immigrants" to Palestine as anyone else, moving into that area in large numbers from surrounding areas over the last 150 years, just as Blacks moved to White areas in S. Africa, etc. All they ever seem to want is to get closer to the Jews so they can wait in line for genocide and medical care, etc.

It doesn't take a high degree of "ethnocentrism" to combine in order to avoid general massacre, and that's why the Israelis were forced into war 1948 onward, nor did they wantonly "expel" anyone, outside of dire necessity. They probably SHOULD have, but as you pointed out, many Jews are low birthrate liberals who are basically unwilling to shed blood.

Palestinians are hardly "few in remaining numbers", half the population between Jordan and the Sea.

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"One would at least conclude that the Jews are not acting out of informed self-interest."

There's a word for that. "Stupid."

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