Kevin had emailed Casseia and me the text of this email exchange, telling us it was ok to post it if we wanted to. Both Casseia and I decided it would serve no purpose to do so other than to feed Jon Gold's delusion that we are obsessed with him, or in his words, "his personal psy-op". Clearly, making this public was more important to Jon Gold than to us.

The fact is that Kevin is for the most part right in his characterization of Gold, except that he is perhaps too generous in granting him the benefit of the doubt on the issue of whether he is legitimately dumb (generous) or deliberately deceptive.

I do appreciate that Kevin takes Gold to task on his denial of being a Zionist given that he has never been willing to say that he is not in favor of a Jewish state in Palestine (the definition of Zionism). His series of "would a Zionist do..." statements is sort of like a closeted gay man saying things like "would a gay man date women?", "would a gay man make it known he HATES show tunes?" but never saying "I am not sexually attracted to men." Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you. But it's one thing to be reluctant to admit that one is homosexual--one's own personal business--it's something totally different to try to misrepresent one's true political inclinations in a debate on politics.

My guess is that some people would rather we focus on the (fake) characters in the movement than on the (real) important issues, as Casseia alluded to in reference to the debate over the Pentagon flyover...