"I think we're heading into blood libel territory soon"
What, just because UCM has noticed how much of the US power structures are owned by Jewish interests who may therefore be supposed to have a vested interest in supporting Israel? (Although it must be remembered that many American Jews - as well as Israeli Jews for that matter - do not support Israel's current attitudes and policies.) It's very bad-mannered to notice it of course, but you can't deny it's there. And of course it explains why America will never ever, condemn any of Israel's actions, however unjustified. And if no-one is ever allowed to mention it without being accused of being anti-semitic and being a promoter of the Jewish World Conspiracy view of the world, then honest debate is simply shut down. In the Arab world, they are allowed to notice (and yes, sometimes, make outrageous and truly blood-libellous allegations on the strength of it) and the fact that we won't mention it is another pointer to them of our dishonesty in debate about Israel.
The real tragedy of all this, is that for a large number of Arabs, the whole "let's throw Israel into the sea" approach was a thing of the past. Many Palestinians, Jordanians etc., accept the fact that Israel is now there. The attitude among younger people was beginning to be a pragmatic OK, the foundation of the Israeli state wasn't well done, but get over it, it's time to move on, we have to go from where we are, not from where we'd like to be. And if only Israel could behave proportionately, that attitude would become the norm and the two sides would be able to come to some kind of modus vivendi. I just feel that when Israel goes demented every ten or twenty years or so, untrammelled by the need to conform to world norms, it raises yet another generation who go back to the hopeless "let's throw them all back into the sea" mentality. It is a tragedy for Israel itself, that it is doing this.