Is it possible to discuss Iran and Israel without invoking the specter of another Holocaust? It seems like it isn't. Israeli officials, John McCain, and journalists all invoke the possibility of a second Holocaust with reckless abandon.

Reckless it is, too. Once the possibility of another Holocaust is posited, there can be no alternative but to take action, no matter how extreme, to prevent it. Israeli historian Benny Morris is so hysterical about the Iranian threat that he would use nuclear weapons to prevent it.

That's right. On July 18, in perhaps the most ridiculous op-ed I've ever seen in the New York Times, Morris called for a conventional military strike to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb and inflicting a holocaust on Israel. He predicted the strike would fail, and concluded that the only alternative left would be a nuclear attack against Iran.

In other words, he called for a holocaust to prevent a holocaust.

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Now this is nice.

It's bad enough that Emily's List would back any challenge to Steve Cohen, one of the most liberal members of the House.

But now Emily's favored candidate is using racial and anti-semitic charges to defeat Cohen.

What gives? Does Emily's List believe that, by definition, any woman is better than any man? Does Emily's List condone anti-semitism? Or racism?

Or is everything permissible when you know you are a liberal? Sickening.

I got a call from an Israeli friend the other day. He wanted to know when I'd be over. I told him and planned a nice dinner in Jerusalem together.

He then asked what I thought about Obama vs. Mc Cain. (He knows I'm for Obama, of course).

I said, "Let's save this for when I see you. If we argue about it now, we'll both decide not to get together."

He said: "Wrong. I'm for Obama."

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I don't like the polls. That is because I, unlike lots of Democrats, don't simply ignore the bad ones and latch on to the good ones. I'm cursed. I read them all and I don't like what I see.

I've already said that I believe that the entire campaign against Obama will be based on race. That is all the Republicans have and, assuming they know history, are safe to believe that white fear of African-Americans will win it for them.

I think there is a 50% chance Obama will win, but no more than that. All the young folks around these part who think that America is post-racial need to get out more -- out of Manhattan, Ann Arbor or Cambridge.

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