THOMAS: It's a tough time for Jews  Cal Thomas  Cal Thomas  It's
a tough time for Jews  In a season in which there is very little
"peace on Earth" and even less "good will towards men," it is a
particularly tough time for Jews, who may be finding it more and
more difficult to tell who their real friends are.  Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta fired an unusually harsh salvo across the
Israelis bow. In a speech at a Brookings Institution forum, he
urged Israel to get to the "damn table" for peace talks. It must
have escaped Panetta's notice that the Palestinians are the ones
refusing to come to the table unless their unacceptable demands
are met. These include, depending on the day, the cessation of
construction projects, even on pre-1967 Israeli land, the so-
called "right of return" of "Palestinian refugees," a concession
by Israel to re-draw its borders to 1967 lines -- though such
borders would be completely indefensible against an inevitable
attack -- and the re-division of Jerusalem, which Israel rightly
sees