Arab-American Zionist: "I Give Up on Israel"

I have a reputation as one of Israel's staunchest supporters.

That reputation is due to several factors:

-As an American journalist of Arabic heritage, I have done my best over the last 20 years to shatter the myths surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict ? misperceptions based largely on effective lies, purposeful distortions and relentless propaganda efforts by Arab and Muslim regimes and their apologists among haters of America and Israel throughout the world.

-As a freedom-loving Christian American journalist who had the opportunity to put my own boots on the ground in the Middle East, it is obvious that the Arab and Muslim world is dominated by tyranny, fascism and anti-Semitism ? hardly a world we should want to see expanded.

-As a journalist, I found that Israel was the only country in the Middle East that respected the free press. This again became obvious recently to us at WND when our own Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein, was prevented from traveling to Syria because he is Jewish.

-The Jews, a people who have survived the deaths of many empires that tried to destroy them ? including but not limited to the Egyptians, Romans, Babylonians, Persians ? have only one homeland, Israel, continuously occupied by them for 4,000 years and never a nation-state belonging to any others.

Yet, despite all this, I am through defending Israel ? at least the regime currently in power in Jerusalem, this useless coalition seemingly hell-bent on committing national suicide.