HONG KONG - I guess I don't have to spell out my answer to this question.

Like my fellow panelist Saul Singer, I am also pro-Israel. While I neither live in Israel nor write for an Israeli newspaper, I supported the organization for which Mrs. Singer works when I was living in Washington, D.C. My favorite magazine is Commentary. Most of my good friends are Jews. And my ex-wife is a Jewish woman from New York.

I would like to draw your attention to a recent article in The Washington Post titled, "Are American Jews Too Powerful? Not Even Close." Ruth Wisse provided a much more sophisticated case than I ever could have.

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Even though I have moved back to Hong Kong for a year, I feel like I have left my heart in Washington, D.C. I miss the United States, especially when my friends are celebrating Thanksgiving.

The United States of America is the greatest nation in history. The American people are the most generous and welcoming. It educates me, inspires me, treats me with the kind of respect one cannot even dream of in my "motherland." While I carry neither a U.S. passport nor a green card, I remain grateful every day for the existence of this beacon of liberty. And I consider it my proudest achievement to have two lovely young daughters who are U.S. citizens.

I believe people in the three Chinese-speaking societies in my part of the world would be grateful if the following changes take place in the coming year:

China: Has a great Olympics! Beijing 2008 becomes Seoul 1988, and not Berlin 1936.

Taiwan: Elects Frank Chang-ting Hsieh, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party.

Hong Kong: Hang Seng Index reaches 40,000 points.