I hope you have time to go back and read the article I gave in my post

I meant the link I gave in my comment @ 84

Hi Kenosha, I used to live in Appleton – almost neighbors *g*

I hope you have time to go back and read the article I gave in my post, it contains a great amount of wisdom by the author Robert Satloff. If you do go back and read the introduction he gives for his book, you will understand that I think he’s taking a thoughtful correct approach in how he looks at the subject we were discussing, that he also describes as being uncomfortable, but important for both the Israeli’s and the Muslim peoples in the ME.

I clicked on your links and can’t dismiss what they say, but at the same time I could bring up the Kasztner Affair, and also the collaboration of the Lehi Group (also know as the Stern Gang) with the Nazi’s which does no one any good because then we would have to go back and forth and get into a flame war type discussion.

Let me take just a snippet of what he says

At that early date, I decided that the most useful response I could offer to 9/11 was to combat Arab ignorance of the Holocaust. The question was how to do it. An adversarial approach, I soon realized, was the wrong way to engage Arabs if I truly wanted to change attitudes on a taboo topic. To do that, I needed to make the Holocaust accessible to Arabs; I needed to make the Holocaust an Arab story.

The answer came to me one autumn evening in 2001. “Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world,” says the Qur’an, an echo of the Talmud’s injunction “If you save one life, it is as if you have saved the world.” If I could tell the story of a single Arab who saved a single Jew during the Holocaust, then perhaps I could make Arabs see the Holocaust as a source of pride, worthy of remembering, not just something to avoid or deny. It was, I thought, the most positive solution I could imagine.

Please read what he wrote and listen to the interview. I think it will give you some good food for thought because he seems to be a very wise man

OK, can we get a little concrete here? What moves should Hamas make to bring that day of peace closer? Should they rethink their policy of rocketing civilian populations? Should they abandon their pledge to eradicate the State of Israel? I really want to know if you believe that Hamas has any responsibility in this mess.

Dead people are left on the streets because, well, not possessing tanks or the fuel to power vehicles, there is no cover to retrieve the bodies.

and, “righteous indignation” is the excuse for the incursion, the indignation over the rockets, leaving sanity in the dust.

and, yes, some (few) relief supplies were used as propaganda fodder in order to buy a “cease-fire”. That, after months of denying Gaza supplies. Wow. Big whoop!

Yes, I would like to see peace. But, the more Israel flexes the muscles given to it by the US, the farther that day moves to the future.

Regime change in Israel. Love the people. Detest the government.