John: What I meant is this — It is a testament to the power of the assimilative forces of 19th and 20th century America that the descendants of Catholic immigrants from a century ago or more (some of them Hispanic, remember) were sufficiently “Protestantized” that a large majority of them have left behind the deeply rooted anti-Semitism of their ancestral cultures and internalized the traditionally American Protestant views of Zion. (It’s this affinity of Americans with the Israelites of the Bible, and of today, that I identified as the blind spot in Walt/Mearsheimer’s analysis.) My question to you is this: Do you really think the assimilative forces of today are such that the large majority of the descendants of today’s anti-Semitic immigrants (as well those who just couldn’t care less one way or the other) will embrace the distinctive American sense of kinship with the Jewish people? I’m afraid a “yes” answer doesn’t pass the laugh test, and the problem is not U.S. policy toward Israel in 2108 (which may be a moot point, the way things are going), but rather one more indication that mass immigration is incompatible with our modern circumstances.