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If the IDF does not stop soon, it will be 70%.

"Numerous times I stated that Palestine deserves its own statehood as does Israel..." I don't recall you doing that, but I'll take your word for it. If you have, you don't state that the Palestine state needs to be part of the land now in question, and you don't explain how that land might be divided into a two-state solution. I've suggested starting any negotiations on a two-state solution with the division of land as is in the UN's 1947/48 map and then going from there.

Yes.

This case is worst than that because BOTH parties are just pissing on international laws, and BOTH sides are doing what THEY THINK has to be done. I do agree with your last sentence above.

My speculation is what Hamas was thinking when they launched their terrorist attack on Israel on 7 Oct was that Israel would respond pretty much as it has, which would do two things: 1. Wake the world up so they would pay attention to how Israel was continuing to occupy Palestinian land, and; 2. Provoke Israel into a counterattack, which would, as they've done in the past, be completely over-the-top and weaken their support from their allies, bringing more of the world onto the side of the Palestinians. And, if that was their thinking...it's working!

What I'd also like to know is what the Israeli [censored] government thought of the US-backed resolution.

I'll try to not do that again. What happens, I think, is I respond to a remark on a remark I made to someone else and then don't notice that this remark is from you. Like I said, I'll try to be more careful.

I said, then, that it was Bkk Brian who posted the video and called it "hilarious." You agreed with almost everything he then said. That was the gist of my remark. What ruins the debate (I'd call it an "argument") is when you get offended at something I've said that is a bit misdirected. Just call me out on it and be done with it. I guarantee I will never accuse you of something you said if I know you didn't. You say enough things of which I disagree that I don't have to make any up,

Yes, what about them? They are as believable to me as the Al Jazeerah links are to you.

The last part of that statement is hilarious!

And the IDF links and quotes you put up........

Wow! This is another one of your posts with which I agree! It is too much to ask me to believe the IDF...

I may be at times dramatic, but I am thinking logically - and, more importantly, fairly. There is no evidence that the man in the video is or was a terrorist. And there's no evidence that the man in the video wants to remove the Israelis from their land. It is only obvious that he wants to protect his home and homeland, and I believe he wants to remove Israelis from it. I take the killing of anyone very seriously, but I understand how the killing of terrorists and those who invade your country can be justified. I do take the killing of innocent Israelis seriously, and also the killing of innocent Palestinians, which you seem not to. Bkk Brian posted the video and described it as "hilarious."

...and waiting to defend their home and homeland against invading Israeli soldiers....

- The Hamas terrorists that took hostages are despicable. - The IDF soldiers who are invading Gaza and killing Palestinians are despicable. - The man in the video was not committing terrorist acts, was in what looks like his own home in Gaza, and appeared to be preparing to defend it from the invading IDF. He is not despicable. - The IDF, who then stormed what appeared to be an apartment complex, firing at everything along the way, and presumably killed the man shown earlier in the video, are despicable. But my actual charge was that the video was despicable, and so are any who think it is "hilarious."

Again, a video of a man who is defending his home from invading IDF and is about to be killed, or a woman who has been taken hostage is not "hilarious." They are despicable.

No, I'm suggesting that the IDF will kill almost every male they encounter and then claim they were Hamas.

Yes, I believe the IDF "knows" every male over 11 in Gaza is Hamas and deserves to be shot.

Yes, I agree, but that applies to both sides.

He was in Gaza, in his homeland. He was not committing horrific acts in Israel, and there is no way for the IDF to know if he did, at least if they killed him as described. Can't you see that videos like this of someone about to be killed are just like the videos of the people killed and hostages taken on Oct 7? You thought those were horrible. Why, then, would you think one like this is "hilarious"?

Question ignored...again.

But, in this video, there is no evidence that this man who is about to be killed is a member of Hamas. I agree it's likely he is, but he could be just some regular citizen who wants to protect his family from the IDF invasion.

No, as usual, you do not have that correct. The term "antisemite" SHOULD mean someone who is against (anti) Semites (both ethnicities of Jews and Arabs). So, an "antisemite" could be ANYONE who hates Jews OR Arabs OR both. And, it could be a Jew who hates Arabs OR an Arab who hates Jews.

Why would you think a video of a man who is about to be killed "hilarious"? Can't you see how horrible that is? And though it doesn't make a difference to the deranged nature of the video, this man was presumably armed and set to defend the invasion of his homeland by the IDF. He was not a "terrorist," at least not in this video. And I'll bet you won't even admit to who the real "terrorists" are in this episode.

Yes! Yes! Yes! As I've noted before in the past, "Semite," which is the base term in "antisemitism," refers to BOTH Jews and Arabs (and some others), but the term "antisemite" is now used only to mean "anti-Jew(ethnic)." Semite noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com