B, I'm glad it's not just me, and the fact that 'you' are also troubled provides some comfort. This has really been troubling me for some time now as I grapple with the complex issues we're faced with in the Middle East. I don't feel fully qualified to discuss matters of philosophy or religion, so I don't typically chime in when those are the topic of a thread, but I'm comfortable with issues relating to public policy. I really struggle to justify the social order implicit in Israel's fundamental domestic policies. I don't know how to explore this issue without breeching someone's anti-Semitism threshold--that's doubly troubling. I think the environment for objective intellectual discussion of these matters has been so poisoned that folks tend to self-censor to the point of supressing the exact issues and topics that require the most examination.