SRS and Helen:

I saw Helen's two questions about 'how'* Chrisitians justify murder and 'how' Jews justify genocide. Seemed to me to be related to the old lawyers' loaded query: "When did you stop beating your wife?"

And it made no effort to bend the knee to the usual baiting question as related to Zionists instead of Jews.

As for SRS attempt to summarize Israel's reason for existence. I do not think this is a proper forum to get into that. Hence I'm not going there. SRS' version of history was so abbreviated and full of low-hanging fruit I don't think even she intends it to be by any means definitive. I respect her knowledge and background, but I do not respect her weighing in on this issue as a moderator. It smacks too much of the flea circus owner betting on the insect races while stamping on the unfavorables.

I have my own sardonic view of the various history versions. Much of it recently has gone to back-dating the story to blame the other guy. Such as: -Iran's Mullahs took over in '79 and started their persecutions then.-So Trump's minions are just fighting 'back'.

I'm not going there.
The next logical step would be to bring up Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA overthrowing Mossadegh.

I'm not going there.
If you want to go over religious / land ownership rights you can go into Turkish civil law, back to the Crusades, back to the Romans, Babylonians, King David, the poor sods who thought they had water rights in Jericho. One of my favorite parts of the Old Testament is about widows who sought inheritance rights from their husbands' tribes. After they received their rights, their husbands' other family survivors protested their lost property rights.

I'm not going there.
Yet
At least on Mudcat. As for anything else, the real master of the Universe, Windows, upgraded me to Windows 11 early this month, without my permission, and I lost Wordpad. So I'm somewhat hobbled in word documentation, as I don't want to rent Word.

* I might have kept my mouth shut if the word 'how' was omitted from your post, Helen. Sorry to be a nudge but words are important. Someday our cheap executive will find that out, but he still misses 'his' roy cohn.