Ethan, no one would expect you to die so HAL9000 and his ilk will love you. He is so steeped in his pro-Palestinian bias that he seems incapable of recognizing that the Arabs are the aggressors here. His understanding of geo-politics is laughably simplistic, only a complete fool would believe the US supports Israel because of "all the oil in the region".

The major oil-producing fields are all in other parts of the Middle East, the only sizable oil fields Israel ever had were in the Sinai, and Israel gave them back to Egypt when they made peace. We support Israel because they are a fellow Judeo (Christian) nation, and are the only democracy in the region. The only nation in the Middle East where Palestinians can be citizens and vote is...ironically...Israel.

IT is notable that HAL places so much trust in UN reports, the UN as a body has been consistently hostile to Israel for decades. And notice that HAL9000 never bothers to mention the explosives labs and weapons caches the Israelis found, the booby traps, and the fact that almost all the Palestinean bodies recovered so far have been young armed men. Militants, in other words.

Personally, I think the Israeli Defence Force showed great restraint. I think they would have been entirely justified bulldozing the entire Jenin camp and setting up a cleared fire zone between them and the Palestinians.

Terrorism is never justifiable, for any cause and by anybody. Unfortunately, the bulk of Muslims in the Middle East don't seem to recognize that. :-(


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