... and what 'atrocities', in this instance, do you perceive me as defending, Jim? It was, I admit, plenty of other atrocities, from unauthorised settlements to the olive-grove destruction onwards, that drove me to the present position vis-à-vis Israel which you admit sharing with me. But it is surely my right to question whether any such are present in this Gaza situation, where imports via Egypt are perfectly practicable [or if not, it is the Egyptians not the Israelis who are preventing them]. Name an 'atrocity', please, that I have 'defended' K's 'defence' of.

& I reiterate ~~Your jokes about Fairy Godmothers and ventriloquism and so on might have been mildly amusing some time in the last millennium; but they really are wearing a bit thin. Time to give them a rest, maybe, before we all expire from boredom?

~M~