"You Jews are always complaining of your own suffering, but you get fat off the poor, cheat the simple, exploit the virgin, pollute where you've exploited --America is one Big Jew! We are soldiers fighting a war. We are not criminals and we are not vandals but men of ideals."
Such are the words spoken by a Muslim-Palestinian terrorist in The Death of Klinghoffer, an American opera based on the 1985 hijacking of the passenger liner, Achille Lauro, by the Palestine Liberation Front, and their murder of a wheelchair-bound, stroke victim --the Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, on holiday with his wife and daughters. However, the words came from the mind of librettist Alice Goodman, an anti-Semitic, Jewish apostate-turned-Anglican priest, who found an "artistic" channel for her own animus, hatreds and biases.
