""So you acknowledge that HAMAS is guilty of war crimes, in siting weapons in civilian homes, hospitals, and schools?""

No you fool, you can't even manage one sentence without putting words into an opponent's mouth.

I said "I deplore the firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas, just as I deplore the entirely disproportionate response by Israel".

I did not, as you wrongly state, admit anything at all about the siting of those rocket firing points, because I have only the word of the Israeli propaganda machine and a few blinkered, biased, Israeli apologists here on which to base any such admission, and frankly mate you wouldn't get that quality of evidence admitted in any court in Britain.

As for your other points, if you want to go back in history that's OK by me.

Let's do that!

Let's give the Jews a home in Egypt where they started out, and see how that pans out.

My point is that we have a siyuation to deal with here and now, and Ancient History ain't much help.

People are dying now, and that Canadian medic wasn't talking about a weekend fixing up anything BUT CIVILIANS.

Don T.