You think I'm thin-skinned, yet I stick my head above the parapet more than anyone else here? Don't be ridiculous. I'm glad you agree that we won't "necessarily" be going nuclear. So why did you mention it? Is Donuel your uncle? As for news, well we see video footage every day of the horrors occurring in Israel and Gaza. Maybe you think it was all filmed in the Nevada desert...

Don't take sides if you don't want to. But the focus of this thread, which, naturally, I have no control over, is meant to be a very narrow one. Do try to address that and avoid making things personal or widening things out into your cod-philosophising.   After all, you don't want to be accused of acting like a microcosm of the Middle East, do you?