I return without apology, Jim, to your formulation that Israel is "the most dangerous reactionary power in the Middle-East, if not the world", because I am reeling from report in today's paper (it's news again because J Corbyn has mentioned it) that Ali al Nimr is still under sentence of beheading + crucifying in Saudi Arabia for having, at 17 years old, blogged something or other; & R Badawi, still doing his 10 years for blogging, still has 950 of his 1000 lashes to come. For all its manifold shortcomings, I don't think Israel beheads & crucifies many people for things they said as children a year or two back. Do you still stand by that above formulation? If so, then you really do seem to be nothing but a perverted bigot.

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