From: max_demian@bigfoot.com 
  
 On 07/08/2025 01:02, JNugent wrote: 
 > On 06/08/2025 07:02 PM, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >> "JNugent"  wrote: 
 >>> billy bookcase wrote: 
  
 >>>> Many Israeli citizens are in fact expatriate Americans 
 >> 
 >>>> Just like the USA Israel is mainly composed of immigrants 
 >>>> With the Palestinians the equivalent of Native Americans. 
 >> 
 >>>> thirdly. While the ill treatment of the Jews never figured as 
 >>>> grounds for 
 >>>> going to war with Germany,€€ after the war was won, the discovery and 
 >>>> ending of the Holocaust - assuming there were that many Jewish people 
 >>>> left to murder 
 >>> 
 >>> Channeling Dogberry? 
 >> 
 >> Would you care to elaborate please ? 
 > 
 > Of course, after I apologise for the typo in the spelling of 
 > "channelling" (I inadvertently used the American variant). 
 > 
 > Dogberry is a constable in Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing", 
 > though I am sure I didn't need to tell that to a man of your literary 
 > achievements. 
 > 
 > He is an early analogue to Mrs Malaprop (a character in Sheridan's "the 
 > Rivals", though you already knew that too) who continually mistakes in 
 > using words which sound vaguely similar to the words she actually 
 > wanted. Dogberry does the same, repeatedly, but there is a particular 
 > line wherein he gets his numerical order of thought wrong: 
 > 
 > "DOGBERRY: 
 > First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I ask thee what's their 
 > offence; sixth and lastly, why they are committed; and, to conclude, 
 > what you lay to their charge." 
 > 
 > [Much Ado, Act III, Scene V] 
 > 
 > Pretty good, isn't it? ;-) 
 > 
 > I assumed you were making a humorous and even witty reference to the 
 > constable by omitting your second bullet point, moving straight from "in 
 > the first place" to "thirdly". 
 > 
 > That IS what you were doing, isn't it? 
 > 
 >> Anyway thank you for giving me the opportunity to mention the€€ Fourth 
 >> and Fifth imporant reasons for the US's *continuing* support of Israel 
 >> down the years. 
 >> 
 >> Which I'd somehow failed to mention. 
 > 
 > More Dogberry? 
  
 That's a rather obscure literary reference. I thought you were talking 
 about Dogbert, Dilbert's dog. 
  
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