'There are apparently plenty of well-connected pro-Zionist people both in Israel and elsewhere who apparently believe claims as outlandish as these ones'

This is, of course, the crux of the problem of the extraordinarily naïve - some would say unbelievably ignorant - support for an extreme, right-wing, political administration and a policy that is patently anti-Jewish and which goes directly contrary to all Jewish teachings and ethics.

Millions of Jews in the US and tens of thousands in the UK, in Paris and in Jewish communities around the world are seemingly unable to distinguish fact from fiction.

The Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry, via its diplomatic embassies and consulates throughout the world, churns out half-truths, fabrications, denials, rebuttals and rejections of evidence of brutality, gratuitous killings and the inhuman oppression of the indigenous people of what was once Palestine.

Such propaganda is accepted as fact and truth because so many, whether educated or not, are seemingly prepared to believe fiction rather than the factual evidence and verbal testimony of both the oppressed and the IDF oppressors.

There is no logic or reason in man's blind capacity to follow a faith. The problem is that Zionism is not a faith - it is a political movement. But so many are unable to distinguish the difference - and that is precisely the policy and intent of the Likud government.

And that is where the answer also lies. To make individual Jews aware that they have been drawn into a political ideology that masquerades as a religious tenet.

Israelis have no innate superiority over other races. A Palestinian woman and her child are of equal value to an Israeli woman and her child. There is no biological difference. The only difference is in perception and the awareness of the brutality meted out by one upon the other.

That is changing, slowly but surely with the US government's realization that without an immediate shift in the paradigm, a third world war will ensue that could engulf us all.