One can only hope that the Meerkats will learn from our mistakes and not follow in our footsteps.

Since they kill and eat the other klan's pups, I am sure that the devil god JHVH will find them a suitable replacement for these damned dirty apes.

Compared to Meerkats, Israelis are pussies. When have THEY ever eating a Palestinian child they killed? When I can go into a grocery store and buy a package of Palestinian Children Nuggets, then I will know that Israel is bad ass enough to earn my respect.

Cannibals - top of the food chain.

Wow. Just over 40 years ago was the 1967 war. Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria. What you might call an Arab-Israeli war. What you might also call the beginning of the modern "Palestinian" problem.

Today, Israel is making war on the Gaza strip. Egypt and Jordan have signed peace treaties w/ Israel. Egypt is keeping it's border w/ Gaza closed. Israel and Syria have been negotiating through Turkey.

The point is there. It's quite simple really. The framework for the conflict has narrowed over those 40 years you mentioned. The Palestinians are on their own. And Israel is trying to split off Hamas as the "bad" Palestinians, so they can make nice with Abbas and the "good" Palestinians.

If you can't get that, and see that it might have a bearing on the current situation, I really can't help you.

Show 'em what ya got ya big Palooka you.

Consider this... they may not need it, but it legitimizes killing, and so the cycle continues. Especially when the primary vehicle of expression is suicide homicide.

Thank you. I will make sure to never speak witih empathy regarding a participating party in a conflict, since it will only legitimize killing and cause war to continue endlessly. I am glad this effect is not as prevalent when homicide sans suicide is the mo. I will feel less guilty when I speak positively abot Israel.

Yes, i think that's the whole point of his posts, to call Palestinians stupid. It seems to me that he believes this will infuriate most the group of sensitive leftists that he has imagined as his enemy--something along the lines of saying your home sports team sucks.

It seems to never occur to him that there are millions of people called Palestinians, each with their own agency. Some support Hamas and live in Gaza, some do and live in the West Bank, or East Jerusalem, while some in all three don't support Hamas at all. Some are indeed stupid; I have no idea of the actual number, nor am I privvy to that data for their American counterparts. But there is a 10 million strong diaspora, as well, of which I am one. Nothing could so perfectly prove Shooter's stupidity then his obsessive need to come back to that insult page after page.

"when in all actuality, they usually support very little of what either side does."

Yeah, but when it comes to criticizing the Palestinians, they don't say it with enough feeling.

"Territory it does not own?" What might that be? Legally, under the rule of war, it owns all the land it conquered in a war in which Arab states were the aggressors. The UN has no legal right to declare those gains illegitimate.

I can see, clearly, that what you meant was that Israel has the responsibility to safeguard the occupied population pending a final status agreement.

I apologize for quibbling.

Yes, of course. Under those same rules, the occupied people may not assume combatant status in order to receive that protection. Of course, that pertains only to the West Bank, where there is an occupation. Gaza is not occupied and its people have assumed combatant status by firing missles at Israel. Slight difference, doncha think?

when humanity should scream to high heaven about the killing-beach of Gaza. I've noticed a few points that the Zionists want to avoid. They will ignore this because it's true.

1. Israel is a theocracy.

2, Israel discriminates against Palestinian Israelis.

3. Israel's citizenship laws are blatantly discriminatory.

4. Israel's military power is funded by the U.S. taxpayer.

5. Israel, a country of 7.1 people, has nuclear weapons.

Render it all down to this and please don't be reminded of "extraordinary rendition" which involved American operatives kidnapping foreign nationals and transporting them across the world to Guantanamo Bay.

Yours was an interesting post although I have several questions for you.

"...the fact that you're just as intransigent as some of the hard-liners you claim to detest."

"...you can't get past old wounds to discuss this issue with any sense of balance."

"You keep launching your brutal rhetorical rockets."

"...it's a bit sociopathic."

1. Can you demonstrate in Glenn's writing where he has been as intransigent as some of the hard-liners he claims to detest?

2. What past wounds are you talking about and can you show us how Glenn, via his writing, where as a result of past wounds he hasn't been able to achieve a sense of balance?

3. Will you please define "rhetorical rockets"? I mention this because rhetoric has several connotations and denotations. If I'm reading you correctly when you say "rhetorical rockets" you are using it in a negative sense - that Glenn is using writing style over substance to make his point. In other words, you are claiming that Glenn has been manipulative in his writing. If this is what you are claiming, will you please demonstrate how he has done so?

4. How, specifically, has Glenn been "a bit sociopathic" in his writing?

Rob, you've made some pretty powerful claims about Glenn but I fail to see how you've backed them up factually. And honestly, I fail to see how Glenn has committed any of the sins you've listed above.

Please enlighten me.

Also, one last thing: "...but at least he (Goldberg) brings personal experience and insight on Gaza..."

Personal experience is anedoctal experience. Anecdotal experience has an important role in argument but it does NOT grant authority on a topic. Goldberg's words do not weigh more than Greenwald's just because he's been there.

Thank you,

M.Morris