"you must be exceptionally senior indeed by now)"
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I am actually long retired, Steve; as to "exceptionally senior", I am 80, so I suppose senior enough!

You commented on the truculent tone of one of my posts a bit back. I rejoin in kind that I think your last was perhaps a bit more hostile than entirely warranted.

I have already acknowledged that the potential of Hamas to cause the sort of harm suggested is not great; but you have not taken on board my points: that the same appeared to be true of that poor scribbling convict in Landsberg Prison in 1924, allied with the fact that we do not know what sort of support might be forthcoming in the future from other segments of the international Muslim world; which might suggest that it would be foolish to discount the fact that all bets may be open.

I do not consider your "undeniable fact that the rest of the Arab world would never allow them to become an imperialist regional bully" to be undeniably factual at all. What are your grounds for this assertion? I should think the opposite would be the greater likelihood, if circumstances should so conduce.

~M~