I think my point (I'm getting a cold) is that there's a limit to how much someone can claim someone else's persecution as their own. I don't know why my ancestors remained in Poland and my grand parents left. I don't feel right claiming that what happened to them would happen to me. Because if the Hasidic Jews were rounded up in NY how much would I (or other) Jews protest? Just how far would we go to defend their "ways". I know this will be repugnant to you, but if it's them or my kids I'll choose the latter. Indeed, that's my argument. Have reformed Jews already made that decision? I believe they have, though few would say what I just said.

Moving to the situation in Israel, am I going to support Jews who believe it's them or the Palestinians? No. I don't feel their situation is remotely like that faced by the Jews in WWII Europe.

I simply won't buy the argument from a nuclear power the best weapons available that it is under any real existential threat from the Palestinians or Arabs in general.

So the question is, why do Palestinians hate Israelis so much? At a certain point you have to look at the other side of the equation. Otherwise, the logic must lead you to a "final solution." Do you see another way?