"Re hypocrisy, now."
Seems to be the case Mike - on the one hand you claim to be distressed at what Israel had become, on the other you choose to lend your support to Keith's continuing toxic bile
He has turned this into another of his epics, defending the indefensible with his lies and distortions - massacres - didn't happen, food deprivation up to the point of starvation ruining childrens' lives, anti Semitic inventions - the the deliberate targetting of family homes - permissable, even desirable as long as a Hamas fighter might be living in the same block - chemical weapons burning the faces of children, harmless as sparklers......
He has twisted and distorted, or has totaly ignored the again and again proven and presented facts to make his case and you have always been there to watch his back when he gets into trouble.
He has lied stupidly "there is a list of banned goods" - can't just put his hands on it at the moment maybe? Save the Children report on malunitrition - inventions or stupidly inaccurate research - he hasn't bothered to explain which.
And you have always been there with your supercilious 'bon mots' to put those who find Keith's filth indigestable in our places.
Keith is on his own here, apart from his trusty digger-out-of-the shit. Others have defended Israels politics, but nobody has attempted to defend the atrocities apart from him - with a little help from his friend
I fully empathise with your own situation regarding Israel, have experienced some of those reservations myself; I find your defence of atrocities via Keith detestable (wonder if anybody else remembers Peter Brough and Archie Andrews)
You used to be better than that.
Jim Carroll