Shooting all males on sight would be a war crime, and Israel would be rightly condemned around the world for it. What is being raised by several posters is remarkably similar to the logic of the Isla… (View Post)

As another person married into a Jewish family, I would actually tend to agree with this. The occasional weaponisation of anti-semitism by some of the religiously fascistic elements supporting Netany… (View Post)

Several parts of that are badly out of date, however. Several nations he put in his "Orthodox Russian bloc" are closer to the West than ever. A lot of his South American analysis is similar… (View Post)

The Israelis have tried this so many times. They can't, but they can increase the depraved levels of radicalisation among Hamas youth to even greater extents. Without a different external approach fr… (View Post)

Some reasonable points from Jack Straw PM, which have even improved my opinion of him somewhat. A mea culpa for Iraq, and a warning over incorrect responses to major attacks, such as 9-11. He went on… (View Post)