Ed Koch has a new column entitled “Did We Not All Say, ‘Never Again’?” He writes, “Those words ‘Never Again’ were announced in every country after World War II. Let’s be totally honest. Those words today almost everywhere in the world are hollow and devoid of meaning.”

In the wake of postings on Israel last week, I’ve received many letters from people — “Christian Zionists,” mainly, conservative Christian supporters of Israel — saying they would like to do something, if it came to the crunch in Israel. One woman writes, “I have long thought that if things go haywire in Israel, I’d go there and, despite my age, pick up a gun. Never again means never again.”

And I thought you’d enjoy a letter from Chester, Texas, written by a man who calls himself a “Southern Baptist Zionist”:

Mr. Nordlinger,
A friend of mine got an Israeli-flag bandanna back in the mid-’90s when he was at the University of Arkansas. He got it to wear in class, in order to protest the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian statements of his professors.

Arkansas too? The problem is truly epidemic. Our reader continues,

The bandanna provoked one professor into making an ugly statement defending the Nazi Holocaust. That was when I started realizing how much anti-Semitism — and hatred in general of “other” kind of people — was prevalent in the universities.
My friend gave the bandanna to my teenager daughter not too long ago, and she started wearing it around the house after we found out our neighbors were neo-Nazis. (We have a problem with these types here and there in Southeast Texas.) They eventually moved out. Might have had to do with the fact that one of them got arrested twice, and also with the fact that yours truly would stand outside with an American-flag shirt and a shotgun at night.
Anyway, I think that wearing or displaying the Star of David is a great way to show support for Israel and to let today’s Nazis know that the Zionist conspiracy is as close as next door or the office across the hall.

By the way, Zev Chafets, Rush Limbaugh’s recent biographer, wrote a book called A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man’s Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance.

Finally, a bit of humor from Britain — a television parody of Hamas. Really. Righteous ridicule: an encouraging sign.