""Not sure of anything about whom you please to call 'my ward', Jim. Never even met him. Don't even know his name ~~ just that his forename is Keith & he lives in Hertford. Just can't help finding that his arguments are in general far more cogently and convincingly (& courteously) expressed than yours. Can't help that, can I now?""

And that he absolutely ignores the point of my recent posts, that the excesses committed are under orders, not a few rogue soldiers.

They are Israeli policy, and any other military force employing the same methods anywhere in the world would have Keith up on his hind legs demanding prosecution as war criminals.

That is the hypocrisy of the man.

Don T.