This is a challenge and a dilemma. Why would Barney Frank as a Jew feel ashamed of Israel. Israel is a separate, secular country -not part of the US and we are not responsible for their actions (although we pay for most of them). Is Barney an american or not or is he a closet Israeli to the exclusion of balanced policy for our country? This is one of the pillars of the new anti-semitism - who do Jews owe their loyalties too - Israel or the country where they have citizenship. Simliar to the old catholic and the pope bigotry. Barney doesn't come from Israel, his family doesn't, etc. but he also needs to undetrstand why he feels this way and ask if it has influenced his policy decisions, conceiveably to the detrement of larger US foreign policy goals? We should all use an incident like this for good and try to understand if we have been turning a blind eye to behaviors we should be trying to change. Have we been feeding trying to save Israel for solong from itself thatwe have in fact now become part of the problem? Maybe not trying to save it is the best way to help. Whether it's a friend or a country maybe having too many life perservers means you never learn how to swim.
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