Agree with all of this and add, Hamas must be completely dismantled or eliminated, with extreme prejudice, in its entirety!
Alan B.

Idiocy writ large!

That there is a country called Palestine is debatable. Douglas Murray asserts that there is no country or state named Palestine.

The thing that we do know is that people calling themselves Palestinians - ethnic Arabs who have moved about - want to wipe out Israel. As long as they think that way there will be no “Peace and prosperity” and no El Derado for them.

Nor is there any point in rehashing the atrocities, the ‘two state’ absurdity, the right of Israel to defend itself from Islamist terrorists.

All of the yabber by people who are not Israelis, not involved personally, has been decided on the basis of ideology, not facts, common decency and the defence of democracy that Israel is the only representative of in the Middle East.

Peace and prosperity in Palestine

Is that the latest Hamas joke ?

Here's the thing. There was a country called Palestine that chose the wrong side during WW11. Not the people but their tribal leader. As a consequence, the British annexed some of their land for the new state of Israel. And the boundary was ratified in 67.

Ethnically, Palestinians are genetic cousins to the Jews and can also trace their origins back to Abraham.

There has to be an end to the bloodshed and the only chance of that, is the people involved in the conflict call for an end to the bloodshed of the innocent.

And get about constructing a two-state solution that is the only solution with a snowflakes chance in hell of ending the endless bloodshed.

Conflict, the bloodshed of the entirely innocent and endless atrocities cannot be any part of any lasting solution nor is throwing people of their ancestral homeland!

It's only a question of time before Iran becomes a nuclear power and if this bloodshed is ongoing, it will end with a nuclear war! A nuclear war that will surely escalate?

Now some idiots commenting here, seem to think that that's ok. And if the cap fits?

But it cannot be allowed to come to that. Because, if it does, we will pay an enormous price also!
Alan B.

Oh gawd...
Peter Fenwick lost me after the third short paragraph.
I was just discussing this article he mentioned on the general forum.

Screams without proof: questions for NYT about shoddy ‘Hamas mass rape’ report
http://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/

"After dismantling a New York Times front page feature alleging 'a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7' by Hamas, The Grayzone is demanding answers of the paper for its journalistic malpractice.

The Grayzone has identified serious issues with the credibility of key sources quoted in the New York Times’ December 28 story, “Screams Without Words: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on October 7.” Authored by Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz, and Adam Sella, the article purports to prove “a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7” than even Israeli authorities have been willing to allege . However, the Times report is marred by sensationalism, wild leaps of logic, and an absence of concrete evidence to support its sweeping conclusion.

The Times has come under fire from family members of Gal Abdush, the so-called “girl in the black dress” who features as Exhibit A in Gettleman and company’s attempt to demonstrate a pattern of rape by Hamas on October 7. Not only have Abdush’s sister and brother-in-law each denied that she was raped, the former has accused the Times of manipulating her family into participating by misleading them about their editorial angle. Though the family’s comments have sparked a major uproar on social media, the Times has yet to address the serious breach of journalistic integrity that its staff is accused of committing.

The Israeli police have also issued a statement since the publication of the Times’ article asserting that they themselves are unable to locate eyewitnesses of rape on October 7, or to connect the testimonies published by outlets like the Times with anything remotely resembling evidence."

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story, when trying to justify the genocide of 24,000 people and another 7000+ unaccounted for under the rubble.

40 beheaded babies?
'Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me'.