I don't know that I would go so far as to say it's a mirror image, but it is damned close. You are right that not all of us support Israel any longer because of what it has become.

@kauva -- I am utterly tired of hearing this weak-assed cop out. The 'nature' of human beings has been in a constant state of change since before we came down out of the trees and occupied the African savanna. If this were not so, there would be no cultural differences in the world, just one homogeneous group still swinging in the trees and throwing feces at one another. No one would ever quit smoking or drinking or using drugs if that cop out held any weight. No one who was raised in a religion would ever become an atheist -- or even question anything they had been taught. It is not the nature of human beings to fear anything different. It is just another of our habits that can be broken with conscious effort.

@evidentialist well, you may be as tired of it as you like but it is a fact. I am tired of world hunger and poverty. I am sorry but your entire diatribe speaks of someone who doesn't understand the human mind at all. We constantly do things that are inherently bad for us physically, mentally and/or socially. I useta think that education should just eradicate it all - but it doesn't. It does help alleviate some of it, but it doesn't take away initial reactions ... those take a long time and a lot of practice to get past if the person can at all. Often we are unaware that our emotions have already been triggered before we even had a chance to react so your whole "think past it" scheme never works. The executive portion of the brain (pre-frontal cortex) hasn't even received information as our amygdala has already activated the adrenaline and put us in our fight or flight mode - which itself changes our emotions. So don't be mad at the people and call them just weak. It is part of our design for the body to respond to danger even before we can make rational or logical thought. Stay up on your modern psychology. namaste.

@kauva -- I am 'up on my modern psychology'.