Israel is a terrorist state and is recognised as such.
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By whom, Jim -- apart from professional hide-behind-pretence-of-loving-justice antisemites? It has taken up a position forced on it by the actual terrorist states by which it is surrounded ~~ ones where it's main headline shokshokshok news in all the world media if two of their women are allowed to take part in the Olympics, without a chance of winning because of the ridiculouslwy handicapping clothes they are compelled to wear to compete. The posture into which Israel has been forced by its terrorising neighbours, who have never retreated from their initially expressed 64-yrs-ago determination to "drive it into the sea", is, as I never tire of saying, a grave disappointment to its original adherents & supporters.

But "terrorist" is scarcely the word to be used of about the only sovereign state in the region with any semblance of a democratic government or a C21 civilisation -- except by resolute kneejerk anitisemites, which you have persistently denied being one of, Jim.

I hadn't meant to intervene; but one can only take so much rubbish from those whom one knows to know better really, and are merely flinging insults for hyperbolical effect.

Yes ~~ you, Jim Carroll.

Warmest regards as ever

~Michael~