Robert Greer Cohn

    In the crisis moment of war, people with differing gripes against an enemy (like Germany before World War II) converge in a unified attitude of hostility and single-minded acts of war.
    Similarly, the threat to us from Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda and from Saddam Hussein’s more-secular racist imperialistic aims (closer to Hitler’s, whom he admired) also converged, whether they coordinated their efforts or not (historians will spell that out).
    Also: the hatred of faith on the part of modern secular-rationalists (defended by Hanson in a critique of D’Souza) converges with the hatred of Jews on the part of Christian anti-Semites, ingrained since the initial demonization beginning two millennia ago, as Vatican II acknowledges.  Comparable radical Muslim (Arab) hatred of the Jews arose earlier (as in Genesis: Ishmael) and grew in modern times.
    The secular-rationalists who dominate campus and media thought (engineering, liberal social engineering) would never admit the anti-Semitic bent in their mindset, but the converging reality is there.
    Israel is blamed on shallower, more superficial, civic-rational, one-worldist, secular grounds which mask the underlying existential drama between faiths externally and, internally, between faith and anti-faith.