Don(Wyziwyg)T
- True, the two threads got mixed up, I'm not the only one who contributed to the confusion, sorry for that, the operation was a plot you foiled.
- Among the other things you write, some you-don't-know-who-I-am stuff I won't reply to, and a double standard masterpiece: "you are simply not qualified to comment on our attitudes, because you know nothing about us. However, we are in a position to note that you are a determined apologist for the Israeli government, and the IDF".

Jim Carroll
Talking about double standard, you write: "like if you condemn Terrorist tactics by, say, the IRA or Hamas and excuse incidents like Sabra and Shatila because it was a part of the defence of Israel". I've no doubt Sabra and Chatila was an enormous and unjustifiable horror, I accept your definition.

CarolC
-        "You said you were going to answer my question again. I don't see any answer here". I appreciate you didn't call me a liar this time. I had written yesterday I was going away from where I have my PC to watch the football game; today I've been to Rome to attend a Union demonstration; now I'm back and ready to answer your question.
-        I may be wrong, but your question didn't sound like a genuine question in a free search for the truth, but looked more like an interrogation to check if I conform to a correct creed, that someone pretends to be the keeper of, on Israel, the Naqba, etc, to get the qualification Don(Wyziwyg)T talks about. That's why I was perplexed, you know, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Israel/Palestine. I support the Two-State solution. Israel and Palestine. I agree with T. L. Friedman, who some years ago wrote, in an article I've lost (and would like to find again: if someone has it, please tell me), that this solution would mean One State Each, not One and a Half. Not Israel plus the Colonies, nor Palestine plus the mass of the Palestinian refugees returning to Israel instead of to the new Palestinian state. Israel would have to shrink a bit, while Palestine would have to accept the exchange land-for-peace. Another possible solution, in my opinion, is that the Arab state be formed by the new Palestinian part (West Bank and Gaza) unified in a single state with Jordan.