Exactly. In the end you have to talk. Israel cannot wipe out Hamas any more than the UK could wipe out the IRA, at least not without committing genocide and becoming the evil they sought to eradicate. (View Post)

I assumed that Leon didn't mean literal DNA but couldn't be sure - he sometimes surprises with the gaps in his understanding of science. Hence my response that was intended to cover either interpreta… (View Post)

From Wiki: Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism are officially recognized and protected, and have reserved seats in the Iranian parliament. Iran is home to the second largest Jewish community in … (View Post)

I once had an interesting chat with an elderly German lady - a distant relative of my late wife - who was born in around 1920 in what was then Palestine. She remembered her childhood as an idyllic ti… (View Post)

Israelis have been killing Palestinians, including women and girls, on a regular basis with barely a peep from the West. Here's a recent example: https://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_girl_dies_t… (View Post)