Danny,
Do you want examples of people who suffered for criticizing Israel? Have you heard of Finkelstein whose tenure was denied for basically his criticism of Israel? Most of the people in the academia who have managed to survive even though they criticize Israel is not because the lobby has not tried to screw them but because they have reached a certain stage in their academic life that the lobby can’t just destroy them. This is not the case with the younger professors who are fighting for their tenure. Any criticism of Israel on their part means no tenure. This is demonstrated by numerous examples and I invite you to do an honest research yourself.
The jews and arabs have many things in common: they are both semitic people (at least the original arabs and jews are), they have lived in close proximity for thousands of years, their respective religions share many similarities, etc. There is one more thing they share: the word ‘hell’ translates to ‘jahannam’ in both arabic and hebrew. And they both have created a jahannam on earth for themselves and their children for many years to come. The best we can do as americans is to stay out of their jahannam and let them take care of their own business on their own.
