My last post got garbled too -- what is it with this thread! Should have read in full thus --

Steve: I am with you in much of your last post; but re this section -
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Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
Most people I know who oppose Israeli policies know full well that such a comparison is ludicrous. See above. --
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If you have followed other threads on this topic, you will know that there is one regular poster [on this & every other of these threads] with whom I have frequently clashed over his incurable insistence on doing just that. He has once or twice promised to refrain from doing so when I have pointed out how offensive it is. I hope he has stopped doing it now.

I refrain from naming him here, but he is following, and contributing to, this thread, and will know I mean him.

~M~