For a book so controversial, Obadiah deliberately chose sophistic style, and drove certain theses over the edge.

Since I volunteer for Obadiah, you may guess I generally support his ideas. It is my belief, too, that Israel and America must do whatever it takes to destroy rogue nuclear arsenals. And yes, after years of communicating with Muslims, I am very much sure Iranian nuclear weapons will end up in New York and Tel Aviv (Obadiah suggests Las Vegas first; let's see). As for the world reaction, every sensible leader would love to get rid of Islamic nuclear weapons, and condemnation would be very superficial. At the very least, Israel won all wars without foreign support (American support in 1973 came too late to be useful).

I am not sure of your source on Kurds. Myself, I am well-disposed toward Kurds, at least because they are genetically Jews. I know Kurdish insurrection reasonably well, however, and can assure you their leaders are as evil as most other revolutionaries. Corruption, drugs, murders - everything is in place.

Turkish leaders were good so long as they were not Islamic (you recall that Ataturk secularized the country). Now, however, Turkish government is Islamic-oriented, and Israel's only friends are secular military and some oil interests.

That some Bedouins work for Israel does not make them inherently friendly. For reasonable money, they might turn around.

I'm of different opinion from you on the morality of Zionism. I do concur with Rav Kahane that Zionism is merely Jewish nationalist socialism (with no connotation of national socialism), and as such runs completely against Jewish values of choseness and liberalism. I should add that choseness in no way implies that the Jews are better than others, just that they are chosen to follow certain rules which is the whole point of being Jewish.

Obadiah resents Israel taking higher moral stance than her enemies. He follows the Jewish cornerstone concept of reciprocity. If Arabs do that, Israelis can reciprocate. We must speak our enemy's language and deal with him on his level of comprehension, not competing with Islamists in morality or humility.

Yoni Netanyahu was good and courageous man. However, the path of localized antiterrorist operations led Israel nowhere. Terrorism is still there. Avraham Stern, however, quenched Arab terrorism with reciprocal terrorism. Thus, Obadiah chose him as a model.

I cannot be sure of the line of thinking of Jewish insurgents in Warsaw ghetto. At any rate, people in so drastic circumstances think very differently, and the literary accounts are largely fictitious. I did not enjoy Leon Uris' novel for its utter psychological unrealism. I want to believe, however, that Jewish fighters of Warsaw would readily attack German civilians to save Jews.