"An array of Jewish organizations are in the forefront of promoting pre-emptive action against Iran and are coming under increasing criticism by other voices in the Jewish community... In the New York Times of September 25, the Anti-Defamation League paid for a full page ad about a nuclear-armed Iran, while an American Jewish Congress resolution advocated that 'military action' against Iran 'be considered.' In his column in The Forward (Nov. 9, 2007), Leonard Fein writes:

"(Norman) Podhoretz wants to use force now. Others, including a disturbing number of major Jewish organizations, endorse 'merely' the threat of force, loudly proclaiming that 'all options' must be on the table. Is such a threat a useful deterrent, or does it instead increase Iran's very real sense of vulnerability, thereby encouraging precisely the behavior it is meant to deter? And is not such talk a way of creeping toward war? Another real war just now? Madness! Yet this is the risk being pressed upon us.

Why must Jewish organizations be -- and be seen as -- the loudest drum-beaters of all?"

-- Allan Brownfeld, American Council for Judaism

While Mr. Fein wrings his hands over the fact that Podhoretz and the rest are increasingly "seen" as warmongers instead of remaining backstage, he fails to mention which "force" the Zionists plan to use to accomplish their goal. Unfortunately, most Americans have also failed to take notice. The AJC, for example, has been a war agitator since the 1930s.

And why the drumbeat? Perhaps he has answered his own question: madness. Generations of following a delusional belief system based on religious fables, arrogant self-righteousness, lust for worldly power, and an obsession with the "promised land" has led them to dig the very pit that they find themselves in now, cut off from humanity behind an "iron wall" of their own construction.

The inexorable logic of their position -- or the "hand of God" if you prefer -- moves them forward.

"But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: ... The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart, and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways... The LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other... " -- Deut 28:15-64