> The Irgun! Holy Jabotinsky, Batman.
>
> I bet -- haven't checked -- you could have found the same sort of
> signals from Bill Clinton, yet he came damn close to getting a peace
> deal with Arafat
That is to say, he tried (and failed) to make Arafat surrender even more abjectly than he already had. Even Arafat (not to mention Assad) couldn't go along with the enormities Clinton asked of them -- at the behest of Israel and its distinguished Lobby.
> So I conclude the Dems are not quite as bad as they
> look on ME policy.
You're right. They're worse.
> They say the things needed to mute the Jewish
> crazies but have the potential to do better than those postures
> suggest.
The potential? No doubt about that. Will that potential ever become actual? I will cook and eat an entire issue of _Commentary_ if it does.