This video is hard-hitting, but it's about time that we American Jews actually started treating Israel with the same respect that we treat our own government. Respect, to my mind, means expecting Democratic values, a basic commitment to human rights, and intolerance of bigotry. Yes, it's true that America has no right to demand anything of Israel. We also have absolutely no obligation to support them financially to such a dramatic extent. I resent that a single dime of my tax dollars goes to support a blatantly misogynist government in Afghanistan (see here for a story about a new Afghan law that allows rape within marriage, and mandates that all Shia women seek their husbands' approval before stepping foot out of the house), and I resent that a single dime of my tax payer dollars goes to support a government run by someone like this: