My personal relationship to Jewishness is pretty distant - I am aware that my (paternal) grandfather's parents were Jewish refugees from either Russian or Polish pogroms, but as he died when I w… (View Post)

Fiction can be more inspiring than reality - doesn't stop the fiction making a point. (View Post)

And that still wouldn't be a justification for war crimes or genocide or collective punishment or the purposeful targeting of civilians. Things which Israel is doing or threatening to do right n… (View Post)

Not wanting dead Palestinian civilians is not the same as supporting Hamas. What's the relative value of a Palestinian life versus an Israeli? 3? 5? 10? Do you want to say for every Israeli deat… (View Post)

When Israel was founded, I can understand that feeling. Now, as the primary beneficiary of the world's only existing superpowers military largesse and political hegemonic power, no. If they beli… (View Post)