Thanks for your reply. I believe in free speech. I also believe in responsible speech. An existentialist psychologist once said that the Statue of Liberty in NY Harbor should be balanced with a Statue of Responsibility in San Francisco Bay. Not a bad idea, IMO.

Please understand that the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews (and other minorities) is an extremely emotional issue. I have relatives who were in Auschwitz. I've seen the tattoos and heard the stories of mass murder directly from survivors. The denial of ANY historical genocide is repugnant to me. I don't understand what motivates people to go there.

I hate to go into the obligatory "One should not be accused of being an anti-Semite for criticizing Israel" speech, but there you go. I have almost as much contempt for the right-wing Likud as I do for the right-wing Christian Zionist dispensationalists in the U. S. I suspect if I was a Palestinian, my contempt for Israel would reign supreme. However, it's quite obvious that there are people who are hell-bent on conflating all things nefarious with all things Jewish. It's one thing to criticize the racist, supremacist ideology that is right-wing Zionism. It's another to castigate all Jewish people. Further, if the ONLY supremacist ideology that is attacked is the Jewish version, then there is a suspicious lack of balance. Christian Euro-American supremacism is another version, and frankly, I believe that people who identify as Christians should do a better job of removing the log from their own eyes. (for the record, I don't identify myself as either Jewish or Christian)

You quote Justin Raimondo. I often read his opinion pieces. His position on 9/11 is as bad as Alexander Cockburn's. Further, I think his analysis of the Middle East truly does border on the anti-Semitic. I have never read anything of his that was outright Jew-hating, but in his case, as with other critics of Israel, it's a lack of balance that I have problems with. He seems to believe that U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East is directed from Jerusalem. While I have no doubt that there is very close collaboration between the various right-wing players in the U. S., Israel, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc., I do not believe that the U. S. ruling class is being led by the nose into these wars. He consistently underplays the profit motive for these wars, as well as the geo-political "strategery" involved, in particular the control of energy resources. Instead, he wants to reduce the entire mess into a cartoon of Uncle Sam being Israel's bulldog. Certainly this is a part of the picture. It's by no means the end of the story.

As far as linking to questionable material, I deal with it very simply. I just include a simple disclaimer. Example: "Just for the record, I don't embrace all of the ideas at the "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" site. For example, I see absolutely no evidence that space-based weapons brought down the towers." That's just the way I do it and I understand that not everybody is going to do it that way.