It will be interesting to see what effect this will have in November at the polls. If it's true, the Dems are in big, big trouble.

Political calculations are all sand-based.
A democratic effort to portray - accurately -
the bumbling Bush administration as duplitious
and indirectly encouraging Arab terrorism against Israel, will lead even the usually pro-Republican voters to vote for Democrats.
There exists much more reliable indicator
of whether the majority of American Jews are learning from the tide of deadly anti-semitism washing round them world over: it's their old visceral dear antigun idiocy. If they decide to switch to the pro-2nd Amendment stance, *that* will demonstrate some learning curve change; if not then not.

Though the article didn't mention it, I wouldn't be at all surprised if their attitudes toward guns are changing as well. In fact, it would be a good time to try to get some articles into Jewish publications making the connection between Hitler's confiscating guns, and what happened later. Certainly Jews in Israel are no fans of gun control--they're packing heat.

LOL! Boris just keep smoking that crack.

-WRT changing Jewish attitudes toward gun ownership: I'll believe it when I see it. I've long perceived a disconnect in American Jews' attitudes, in that many Jews I have known seemed simultaneously to view guns as the demonic implements of rednecks and anti-Semitic hate groups (in this country) and accepted tools of Jewish self-reliance (in Israel). I remain skeptical that these attitudes have changed.

-Also, it is remarkable that there are still Israelis (e.g., Yossi Beilin) who cling religiously, despite all evidence, to the appeasement theology that contributed so heavily to the current crisis. Certainly most Israelis see things plain. The minority who do not, serve as a reminder of one of the unfortunate truths of human nature -- that some people never learn. It is always dangerous to assume that any group of people will "come around" to a reasonable position if they are merely given enough information. This observation applies to antigun people, Jewish or not, in the U.S. as much as it does to Israeli pacifists.