It's very easy to throw stones, what I don't see here is any thought to the other side of the debate. When you think that only your view is valid, I turn off. When you got no hope of ever having to inact your views it's easy to hold silly ones.

One does not need to look too far afield to find other examples of DEFAT's cowerdice. Consider their reponse to the recent massacre by army and police in Northern Peru over land use issues.

This is a highly unbalanced article whose special pleading does Jake no credit.

Why do you so hate democratic Israel but say nothing about the racism and violence perpetrated by Arabs, for example in Darfur, and Iraq, and in Saudi Arabia upon guest workers, especially other Muslims?

After World War II, Jews were determined never again to endure holocaust in Europe. Many returned to their ancestral home. NOWHERE ELSE could they could feel in control of their destiny. They were resourceful, creative, innovative, hard working achievers. Lacking Arab fatalism, they understood that life is what you make it.

The "Palestinians" are not a separate people but descendants of Arabs who migrated mainly in the late 19th century into the land the Romans renamed "Palestine" in AD70. After the Romans scattered the Jews, the territory remained a province of someone else's empire until 1948, when the state of Israel was established. The Arabs collectively own all the land from Mauretania to Iraq. Unlike the Jews, the Palestinian Arabs DID and DO have somewhere else to go - if one can believe in the brotherhood of Arabs and of the Muslim Ummah.

The "Palestinians" are not refugees. They were born in the camps where their feckless and corrupt leaders, and their Arab and Muslim "brothers", have CHOSEN to let them rot for sixty years. Uniquely in the world, they have refused or been denied resettlement. When the Irish suffered the great potato famine of the 1840s, they upped tentpegs and emigrated in droves – to the USA, Canada, Australia, NZ and elsewhere, where they got themselves a LIFE, and went on to provide presidents and prime ministers. What have the "Palestinians" done apart from whinge and whine and blow up themselves and others with their suicide bombers, obscenely using even unwitting children?

The Israelis want secure borders. They will NEVER give up their land. Get used to it. Urge the "Palestinians" to emigrate. Urge the Saudis and the West to co-fund it. It worked between Turkey and Greece after 1922. It's been happening now with whites in South Africa and Zimbabwe.