Riginslinger quoted the following passage from one of BB's posts and then asked a question:

"WHy didn't Great Britain just surrender to Hitler in WW II? THAT would have saved a number of lives, and stopped the war, as well."

                I wonder what the world would be today if they had?"

I think the following covers it fairly well:

"Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." - The Rt Hon. Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 18th June, 1940.

Oh Guest HUGO, I note that the "Stop The War Coalition" only demand that alleged Israeli "war crimes" have to be investigated.

Barry Finn – UEC – Usual Emotive Crap – 4000 homes and 50,000 homeless out of a population of 1,500,000 is translated into, "Gaza's infastructure is in complete & total ruin, it is a wasteland". Hardly Baz, I am sure the damage could have been one hell of a lot worse if the IDF had been intent on the wholesale slaughter of the population of Gaza.

"So now Israel pulls out, because there's nothing left worth conquering" – I don't believe that "conquering" anything was ever on the Israeli agenda. Hopefully now the "elected Government" of the people of Gaza will have enough to occupy themselves with doing something quite unique for them – actually providing for the Palestinian people – rather than progress Iran's proxy war with Israel.

Oh and 600-Up.