Jim,

The Hamas declaration predates the Israeli posseion of nuclear power- you are again wrong.

Israel HAD nuclear weapons in it's last several wars- and did not use them. Thus, your comments about systematic killing should be reserved to the Palestians who did so to those Jews in the West Bank, and other Arab nations after 1948- killed or drove them out- THAT was ethnic clensing- there were far more Arab Israelis LEFT in Israel that all the Jews in all the Arab nations. The refugees from 1948 were approx 640,000 Arabs who fled Israel ( a minority of the Arab population, and 820,000 Jews who were driven from Arab nations- the vast majority of the Jewish population. Israel settledm0ost ( over 500,000) of hose Jews- HOW MANY ARAB NATIONS SETTLED ANY PALESTINANS???

I grew up ( pre 1967) across the street from a Palestinian family from the CHRISTIAN town of Ramallah- tell me baout how THEY were allowed back between 1948 and 1967, when it was under Arab control- and the Jewish population was ethnically cleansed ( OK when you conquer Jews, I guess you would say)

Going back to 1923, the British split off 77% of the Mandate Palestine for an Arab Homeland- and did not allow any Jews to settle there- So the remaining 23% of the Jewish homeland is NOT allowed to remain a Jewish (majority ) state??? You want to give back the Jewish homeland as created by the treaty that ended WW I, and established Lebenon, Iraq, Turkey et al???