Dear rpg,

You do bang on about "hate'. Labelling myself as hateful and vengeful simply because I have sympathy for an oppressed people is a little over the top.
I doubt whether the Palestinians who presently reside in that huge concentration camp called "Gaza" would agree that the Israelis were very "controlled" during their recent(aptly titled) "offensive". This was one of the most sickening demonstrations of "overkill" the world has witnessed in recent history - you obviously believe it was warranted.
It seems that the Jewish people were not privy to the sort of advice your father gave you - they always wanted to reclaim the land they saw as theirs.

Dear Constance,

Just noticed your insightful contribution to the discussion at hand.
Thank goodness for people like you - OLO, of course, is at times somewhat like a tag team sport, so it's important to have people on the sidelines cheering for their side - it adds to the atmosphere!
Do you, perchance, have anything pertinent to add to the discussion here...any gems of wisdom from the spectator section?

So Mr singer
You state that "Jordan and Israel should divide up the West Bank between them and that no Israeli or Palestinian would have to leave their homes."

So where would the border be? And how does that relate to the map on your blog? http://www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com/
which just for those who havent noticed shows Israel occupying all of the West Bank and Gaza.

Admit it singer you are just a zionist who sees all of "eretz israel" as your god given right and will stop at nothing to achieve your ends of genocide and ethnic cleansing of all the land west of the Jordan river.

You keep rabbiting on about the arabs, and presumably the rest of us, having to recognise Israel as "a jewish state" with a seeming total blindness to the fact that here in Australia(and the rest of the western world)we do not recognise theocracies and rule by religion. We believe in separation of church and state and for good reason. We will not be recognising any such religious state be it jewish, islamic or any other religion ruling over its people. Mullahs,rabbis or priests ruling over anybody leads to very bad outcomes for society as we have seen time and time again throughout history.

The only answer is for Israel to stop stealing Palestinian land and accept that they must share Jerusalem and limit their expansionism. Decide on their borders permanently and not discriminate against those who arent jewish. Irrespective of what their god says.

Mikk, yours is an excellent comment but will it change anything in Singer's mind? No way. He sees what he wants to see and ignores everything else. Religion does that to people, especially to fanatics.

I presented him with a list of Israel's atrocities and war crimes and he ignored the whole lot as he has done many times before.

Why he is allowed to push his duplicitous, racist propaganda on OLO so often I cannot fathom.

poirot, your sympathy encourages the Palestinians to continue their their hating of Israel. You underwrite it, you and so many others, like the supporters of the Irish troubles which kept going for years because sympathizers continued to give solace and funding to them .. now you may not give funds in your sympathy, but many do .. by doing that, you have taken a side with all it entails, but then when it suits you, you stand off and say " oh, I'm merely sympathetic".

You defend the terror they continue with in the name of sympathy .. if all the sympathizers backed off from both sides, stop funding, stop supporting them both - then you take away the reasons to continue the standoff - at the moment, the Palestinians, Fattah and Hamas get so much funding from Arab countries, and "sympathizers" that they don't really want it to end, it's a career it gives the players importance. It self propagates.

Hey and what's Constance done aside of what so many do on OLO, if they agree with someone, they say so .. it's interesting that I have never seen you take to task and scold anyone else who has done exactly that .. you are very selective in your anger aren't you? She was merely being "sympathetic".

If you support someone's hate, you have bought into it .. plain and simple. I can see though that it disturbs you to have the mirror put to you so that you can see what you are, a supporter of terrorism?

# To Mac

You state:

"The Zionists originally claimed that they intended a 100% 'purchase' of Palestinian land, some Western observers,at the time, realized the sinister implications of this policy.Of course the Palestinians were never deceived and understood the catastrophic implications."

In fact 77% of the land promised to the Jewish people was denied to them just three months after it had been promised to them by the League of Nations. That land is today called Jordan where reconstitution of the Jewish National home was declared to be not applicable.

It is amazing how many factual inaccuracies are appearing in responses to my post. They obviously have the capacity to influence opinions. Those making them are either ignorant or deliberately misleading readers.

# To Arjay

You state:

"If Israel stopped the slow genocide of the Palistinians then they will have some credibility."

In fact the West Bank Palestinian Arab population in INCREASING.

If you stopped making such misleading comments then you might gain some credibility.

# To Poirot

You state:

"I doubt whether the Palestinians who presently reside in that huge concentration camp called "Gaza"

Perhaps you and others taken in by your hyperbole might care to view the following:

http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/01/scenes-from-the-gaza-concentration-camp/

Certainly there are issues concerning the entry and movement of people and goods into and out of Gaza. But to call Gaza a concentration camp is to attempt to compare the Jews to the Nazis. That is classic Jew hating.

Thanks for that gem of wisdom from the spectator section. It contributes nothing to a serious discussion of resolving the conflict.