The Zionists, whose explicit aims were to found a Jewish state in Palestine (what would later be Israel), were the targets as far back as the Ottoman control of the area.
Even terror attacks such as the Munich Massacre were pretty specifically targetting Israeli expatriats.
Mostly my beef is with the conflation of Jewish and Israeli. They do not represent all Jews, and any conflation of those distinct groups should be put down.
In this case, following the Golden Rule means that if you’re an unhappy voter and would like other unhappy voters to hold their noses and vote for the major candidate they least dislike, you should be willing to do the same thing yourself.
What if I want unhappy voters to vote their conscience instead?
All of those were actions Gore would almost certainly not have taken.
That may be argued, but then what would Gore have done that we would hate today instead? Also, the invasion of Iraq was not a forgone conclusion in '00. It may have been a vague goal of Bush's, but was unlikely to have happened without the strong wave of Islamophobia and sentiment of vengeance brought on by Sept 11.
The Taco Bell beetle?