What you mean, I fear, Jack, is that you can't think of an effective reply because you know Keith is right. The fact that Israel has turned out by its later behaviour to have been a great disappointment, falling far short of the hopes and ideals of its founders and original worldwide supporters, should not blind anyone to the fact that, by great courage and determination, it defended itself from simultaneous attacks from all sides by all its neighbours on its very foundation; and that most of these neighbours have not given up on this explicit determination to destroy it utterly right up to the present. I know it is behaving appallingly in many ways. But what is it supposed to do in such a situation?

~M~