Just one more try -- for all the good it will do me! ---

I agree with pretty well all your criticisms of and animadversions against Israel, Jim. But they have at least made some gestures towards negotiation, however hedged about you find their offers -- which negotiation might well influence if it could just occur. Hamas, OTOH, have explicitly & aggressively rejected any such procedures. So whoever may sit at this table of yours, even "under the scrutiny of" the Lord Jesus Christ and "in full view of" the Lord God Almighty, it will be but a vain proceeding if Hamas are not party to it, because none of the other potential conferees can control them and they are really the only entity that matters.

You know this perfectly well -- so just, please, apply a bit of Sense And Sensibility to the matter, and stop declaiming platitudes like a demented Revd Mr Collins.

Regards

~M~