"I remain much exercised, Jim, as to what you regard as 'hypocritical' in my denunciation of Israeli settlers for having destroyed the olive groves "
I most certainly do not disagree with you Mike - I find hypocritical the fact that it is the only actual criticism of Israeli behaviour you have been prepared to make, to my recollection.
Sabra/Shatila, The Israeli/Berlin Wall, the spread of settlements, the massacres and devastation of 2014, the introduction of Israeli Apartheid..... and the rest, "is silence" as The Bard said.
silence is support in another form, as far as I'm concerned.
Your being ashamed for me is fully reciprocated.
Jim Carroll