Reply #2: I'm forming the opinion that perhaps this is the turning point for the vile accusation of

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anti-semitism. I hope it goes away WHEN someone accuses you over the internet and they don't have any idea what your feeling is against all Jews or Jew-Semites. They have no idea what your relationships have been and they blatantly make the claim.

Just as Bush loyalists accuse people they don't know of being unpatriotic, Anti-Semite accuse people they don't know of being unpatriotic to Israel by calling them a name.

It is hackneyed, boring, and meant to make a person back off or feel guilt.

Only the accuser gets something out of it.

It's always been a weak comeback, it is particulary weak when said to someone you don't know.

I grew to have no sympathy for the policy of an eye for an eye and was critical of both sides for such a childish act.

So where did the bravado come from to up the risk?

I will try to understand. But, I will not tolerate being called an anti-semite. It is an insult and it's abusive. It is ineffective and creates division.

Are we at a turning point?