I think it needs a few Why, oh why's and an In my day, to really make the grade.

What an embarrassment this whole subthread is. Starting with the bizarre suggestion that jews have some sort of special moral responsibility to intervene in any major human rights catastrophe, because the holocaust = a huge human rights catastrophe?

These kind of train wrecks are inevitable when people post stuff like this to HN. Dogma vs Dogma.

Oh please. All I did was say something that is true, but politically incorrect. Just because it offended your sensibilities doesn't mean it's false.