"How is any of that relevant to this discussion please?"
It's relevant to stopping you stooping to your usual level of maligning contributors to this thread with lies and attempting to set one member against the other - seems to have done the trick as you have now denied what you actually said - so let's move on

Israel is carrying on a policy of ethnic cleansing in order to drive out the Palestinians and move in yet more settlers - that is what the trouble is about and that is what you, Bobad, Bruce, and now Joe are defending are defending (I have no intention of responding to your forthcoming denials - our dialogue is over)
At least Bruce and Bobad have had the courage to say whet they believe - that the Arabs have no claim to the territory they occupy as the scriptures say it belongs to the Jews - that sums up perfectly the argument the Israelis have been hiding behind to excuse their atrocities - it was stated over and over again by settlers interviewed by Simon Schama in his series 'History of The Jews a couple of years ago when Mike Grovenor Myer was a valued contributor to this forum.
A recent survey in Israel has found that hald the Israeli population want the Palestinians ethnically cleansed out of the territory (The Jerusalem Post says so, so you can't dismiss it as 'Antisemitic propaganda' as you usually do)
You have denied every act of inhumanity, every war crime, every atrocity that Israel has carried out
Joe opened this thread to paint an anodyne picture of what is happening in Jerusalem and you have resorted to your old ploy that there cant be ethnic cleansing because the Governments who stayed silent about Vietnam, the atrocities of the oil wars and now the atrocities still being committed by Assad and Russia in Syria and the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar haven't said anything about it (not that they have denied that ethnic cleansing isn't taking place - just political silence)
If theser countries didn't believe Israel to be guilty that would publicly announce that Israel as being maligned
As it is, only the U.S. have leaped to Israel's defence with around 100 U.N. vetoes which have kept Israel from being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity
The facts of Israel's policy are obvious and some of the most vociferous opponents to it are Jews who, according to the Regime, have become "self-hating" liars and Jewish antisemites
To criticise Israeli policy is to be Antisemitic - even the ISRAELI MINISTER OF JUSTICE has said so
Making any Government immune to criticism in this way is fascism, pure and simple
That is what has happened to Israel under an extremist right wing administration
These administrations have destroyed the dream of a Jewish homeland and have turned it into a nightmare
Discuss it honestly instead of making extremist excuses of your own (that is what your "silence of politicians" argument - political extremism
Jim Carroll