Well Frank... you are probably correct. If I was Jewish, given the history, secular or not, I would not support any party or candidate that supports the palestinians.
I could never understand this obsession with "assimilation," blending in with the crowd.
One's what one is born, and can't do a damned thing about it.
So one might as well try to make out best one can, with who one is, relying upon one's strengths (and those of Judiac derivation have a great deal of that) rather than trying to hide one's vulnerabilities.
An analogous situation is.....franksolich.
Almost from birth, I've tried to "assimilate" into the hearing world, even though of course I'm totally opposite of that. Up until recently, I even went so far as to assiduously avoid other deaf people, didn't want to have a thing to do with them, hung around exclusively with hearing people only.
I got to where I avoided other deaf people as if they were lepers.
It wasn't until about ten years ago that I realized no matter how hard I tried blending in with the hearing world, I was never going to be assimilated. (This is
not the fault of the hearing world; it's just that the chasm is so wide as to be nearly unbridgeable, their world and mine.)
And with age comes that growing realization that one is what one is, and probably best to stick with one's own.
I think there's a lesson for trying-to-assimilate Jews here.
