re: #6 silverdolphin

I am very afraid that such doomsday munitions under the control of a right-wing authoritarian government headed by an alleged criminal will be used in horrifying fashion. If they have not already. What are the real checks on this?

They are gone.

I started in a very pro Israel position. Then and now, I feel the Palestinians need to be free from the oppressions of Israel, and Hamas. Not too sure about the order there. But clearly this is the rock and hard place they live in.

Clearly Bibi is indulging in the most life-taking and generally destructive tactics he can get away with. I can see the tactical dilemma by rockets aimed at Te Aviv fired from deeply dense civilian neighborhoods. Israels military now is torturing the Palestinians to force Hamas to give it up. But Hamas don’t care. They like the pressure on Israel, even at that price.

I think the Palestinians are caught in the worst place possible, with no good answers in sight at all.

Just IMHO. But I work with people from over there of every nation/culture. At my work, they put up Arab news channels. Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs, Armenians from seemingly all over… Had long talks with some of them.