I condemn them all ~~ the olive groves just happened to be the issue at the time, and I found it oddly symbolically unacceptable tho probably, as u say, not the worst abuse. But u do not admit any of the possible counter-points: like the huge thing you lot make of rejection by Israel of UN 242, when the whole thing started by the outright rejection in 1948 by 6 - or was it 7 - states in the region of the UN resolution that had estd the israel-arab partition, which the israel side quite prepared to accept...

One could go on with this argument for ever. U, not I have, intro'd this unfortunate twist in your last sentence. It's a cap u appear to have presented to yourself to wear if it fits. All I will asay on that score is that there appears a certain lack of balance in your attitude to the whole situation, it seems to me, while mine, allowing for unavoidable antecedence, seems to me more rational; more accepting of the situation as it is; and less agenda- & ideology-driven.

Still cannot reconcile self whatever to the loathsome thing Israel has become; but can at least perceive the provocations which might have brought this about, which you seem prepared to discount with a merry laugh...

Enuf...