Jonah: I sympathize with you on the subject of hate mail. In a way,

though, as a Jew, you have it easy. After all, it’s obvious why you support

Israel. It’s in your blood–there is a teeny image of Ariel Sharon stamped

on every red corpuscle. You can’t help it. What really gets the lunatic

fringe frothing is folk like me: Zionist gentiles. This they can’t figure

out at all. Why on earth would a goy support Israel? There must be some

ulterior motive, and there are some very imaginative suggestions as to what

that motive might be…