Don ~ Rapprochement by all means if agreeable to you. I hate being on permanent bad terms with anyone. Despite any poss appearances to contrary I am not a naturally contentious person...!

Re your putative pro-Israeli Palestinian; it would clearly be desirable for the resolution of the situation if one could be produced, and would indeed provide a fine balance to Finkelstein's contribution. But that hardly SFICS makes it an absolute sine-qua-non for Keith's point to which you were responding to have any validity; 'twas therein I found the deficiency in logic.

Best wishes

~Michael~