If one wants to understand why so many seemingly secular Jews are such staunch supporters of Israel and Jewish causes, one need look no further than the object lesson of George Soros, one who isn't - a Jew who doesn't identify as such, is uninterested in the State of Israel, blames the Israeli Government in part for the upswing in global anti-Semitism and supports Leftist causes. He virtually screams, "I'm not one of those Jews, I'm the good kind..."

Yet it doesn't stop the rest of the world from identifying him as they will, as a Jew, and putting the burden for all his faults, real and imagined, on his co-religionists...whom he does little to support. Instead, he futilely attempts to distance himself from the label, leaving others with the burden to bear for him.

So in addition to demonstrating the old adage, "Once a Jew, always a Jew," or, "You can't escape who you are," he also demonstrates the fact that many people who are geniuses in one thing, may be very, very foolish in others.

Lowell Ponte has the goods in this link-filled profile.