How does Israel benefit from incorporating people who are hostile to it? Land-grabbing, for its own sake, is the stupidest of policies. (View Post)

People can’t be treated as helots, forever. Eventually, they revolt. (View Post)

Prison takes dangerous people out of circulation. To that extent it works. But, it doesn't make them better people. (View Post)

Herbert Smith would be the first to agree. (View Post)

But if Gaza were a State, then de jure or de facto, a state of war would exist between the two, and blockade is lawful in war. (View Post)