"According to mhaze, If your neighbour breaks into your house, murders your wife, rapes and kidnaps your daughter and beheads her baby, you should inflict all possible revenge."

Well I never said such a thing. You see, Paul, when you have to fabricate my opinions, you've already lost.

Tell ya what Paul. How about you address the points I make rather than make up my opinions and then tell me how bad those made up opinions are. That tells us more about you than me.

Just a couple of other points for you to distort:

1. You keep describing the people who die in Gaza as murdered. Well that's ain't so. They died in war which is very different. You won't understand that.

2. They died because Hamas is using them as shields to protect themselves from the consequences of their maniac actions on 7/10.

3. You keep using numbers that are put out by Hamas and treating them as fact. I don't accept those numbers and recognise the difference between fact and propaganda.

This back and forth is a waste of time.

The bottom line is this: had it not been for the Hamas terror attack on Israeli civilians on 7th October, not a single Gazan would have been killed. End of story. Suck it up. Tough titty.

"The two faces of AC:
* any death is deplorable and all killing must stop.
* let's kill all the hostages."

I didn't say 'Let's kill all the hostages'.
- I wasn't my first preference I offered a choice for a prisoner exchange, everyone for everyone.

What you want Israel to have ALL their people back.
But you still want Israel to keep some of the Palestinians prisoner / hostage whatever the hell you want to call it?
- And you think that's a fair deal?

If that's what you think, then it's because you're a weasel.
That's all that these 'claimed' offers of peace ever were, weasel deals.
Not fair ones with a true intention to try to make peace.
How many Palestinians has Israel locked up since Oct 7?

IN ANY CASE

Any argument the Israeli or Pro-Israeli side makes is just a clever but pathetic attempt to try and mask the fact that all this is about taking land in line with 'Eretz Israel' or 'Greater Israel' and that even Netanyahu has himself referred to the Palestinians as 'Amalek'.

1 Sam.15
[3] Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Anyone here who says the Palestinians are bad, and Islam is the reason forget there's two sides of that argument.
The Israelis are as equally screwed up in their religious aims and attitude.

The Israeli's are committing ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It's no big secret, it's not like Israel can hide it.
What do they think we're all stupid?

Israel is a sick country, just like Ukraine.
When the citizens of one side are celebrating their sides attacks on the other sides innocent civilians - as both Israeli and Ukrainians citizens currently are, it's because the populace are sick, and the nation is sick

AC yesterday..."Don't you like my idea to send all the hostages back dead from starvation?"

AC today..."I didn't say 'Let's kill all the hostages'."

What a bozo.

"When the citizens of one side are celebrating their sides attacks on the other sides innocent civilians - as both Israeli and Ukrainians citizens currently are, it's because the populace are sick, and the nation is sick"

Ahem..."Palestinians In Gaza And The West Bank Celebrate On October 7, Hand Out Sweets, Fire Guns In The Air, Following Hamas's Invasion And Massacre Of Israeli Civilians In The Gaza Envelope"

http://www.memri.org/tv/palestinians-gaza-west-bank-celebrate-october-seven-massacre-hand-out-sweets-fire-guns

But if you don't want it to be true, it isn't.

I was reminded this afternoon that while the Albanese government has further disgraced itself by by restoring funding to UNRWA, the U.S has passed a Bill preventing any funds from going to UNRWA until and unless certain requirements are met.

Also, Netanyahu has said that UNRWA will have no role to play after the defeat of Hamas.

Hi mhaze,
Why don't you go back a little further and check my comments;
I offered a prisoner exchange, doesn't Israel want it's people back?

On second thoughts though, I realise I'd be conflicted by such a plan.
- To starve hostages and send them back in a box.

The moment I did that, (supporting the starvation of hostages and sending them all back in a box) I'd be edging my toe across a line marking an 'ends justifies the means' position.
Which really is the argument of terrorists, and I can't really support it.

But I think it really would screw Israel over entirely at this point if that happened.
There would be no victory for them, just a slaughter of innocents by them.
And the knowledge that what they did to others was done to them in return.

Hi ttbn,
"I was reminded this afternoon that while the Albanese government has further disgraced itself by by restoring funding to UNRWA, the U.S has passed a Bill preventing any funds from going to UNRWA until and unless certain requirements are met."

I'm not saying we should send them cash.
I'm just saying we should NOT STOP sending food, water and medicine.
We can revisit the whole idea of whether or not we should or should not send any aid at all after the war is over.

It's not even being let in anyway, though there's been an increase in truckloads of aid getting in from 100 trucks to 200 truck (per day) over the last week.

When we say 'We send aid to the Palestinians', we certainly do not mean 'we are sending cash to Hamas, the legitimate government in Gaza'.
We send money to a UN agency.

We shouldn't use a conflict as a pretext to deprive people of basic essentials.
And is being 'occupied by Israel' not a factor in why we give aid to Palestinians anyway?
It's nitpicking and devious to go after the whole organisation for the sake of a few employees in the middle of a genuine crisis.