"give me links to your opinions on Sabra/Shatila and the toxic nature of Israel's proposed resettlement of the Bedouins"...

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I have no specific links to these specific enormities to give you, Jim. They are all just a part of a pattern of entirely unpardonable behaviour on the part of an entity which I now regret having devoted so much of my youth to bringing about; so that I don't even read the details of the current incidents and situation there any longer because I find it [can you really not get this?!] altogether too painful and distressing. If you think that is 'faint' dispraise, mere 'wrist-slappery', think on. What more do you want me to say? I cannot but feel that the whole situation is the result of the behaviour of Israel's Arab neighbour-states in 1948; and that Israel's paranoia to this day derives directly thence. I suppose you will regard this as mere all water under the bridge; but my Heller quote re paranoia applies to nations as well as individuals. Israel is paranoid; would be as I say: but that doesn't mean that they are not all, or most of them, still 'after them', aren't they? Israel has gone too far. They have alienated all right-thinking people. Even my sister keeps her lips buttoned on the subject, tho her first son was born there. He lives in Devon now; but her second son, who was born here, now lives there - and our lives are spent in a state of constant worry and anxiety as to whether he will still be living there tomorrow. Try a bit of empathy, Jim. Sorry if I have gone a bit incoherent. Enough, before I burst into tears. The subject is one infinitely distressing to me