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But one Jewish child has value, is that what you are saying?

Yes, most ethnicities have a name that is derived from their language, or maybe the name for the language is derived from the ethnicity: - Arabs speak Arabic; - Chinese speak Chinese; - English speak English; - French speak French; - Brazilians speak Portugese - Ooops! Of course that's because they were occupied by Portugul in the past; - Jews speak Hebrew. Go figure...

I've addressed this before. "Jew" is used to describe BOTH an ethnicity and religious practice. The comparison would be between "Arab" and "Muslim," which are two terms. I've suggested that instead of using the term "Jew" for their ethnicity, the term "Hebrew" would be easier to distinguish whether you are referring to the ethnicity or religion. But, of course, for suggesting that, I was called "antisemitic."

I am me. I judge what they do, and I express my opinions.

I think you've written the truth here. Israel feels so threatened as Jews and believes there are so many in the world that hate them, they believe anything they do, even atrocities, are justified because, in the past, atrocities were committed against them.

And, what is the value of 13,000 Hamas terrorists? Do they have less value than one Jewish child hostage?

I agree with you, but there could be a two-state solution, like the one the UN proposed in 1947/8. I would support that. Of course, I don't live in either place and don't ever intend to go there.

Perhaps because they were moral and valued the lives of ALL people? You think?

It could be, if Israel wanted to be different.

One state means Israel is over. Neither side wants two states. You're basically fantasizing about pie in the sky stuff. Okay, then what is your suggested solution?

All your arguments about immigrating elsewhere could also apply to the Israelis.

"Hostages" or "prisoners," what's the difference? I don't base my conclusions on Biden or any one source. Many sources call the bombings "indiscriminate." And... If the IDF says the bombings were not Indiscriminate but precise and focussed, that makes their killing of tens of thousands of civilians even the more despicable!

Yes! Permanent ceasefire (perhaps enforced). No! I do not want to see either side lose any more than it already has. I want to see them sit down and work out some arrangement of how they can both live together (one-state solution - unlikely) or at least side by side (two-state solution).

I wouldn't like that at all, but that would be better than killing hundreds, maybe thousands, of them outright like was done in the bombings.

Okay, would you believe 20,000? Or 10,000? Either of those is horrible.

No one is calling for Israel to surrender to Hamas! All we are asking for is a permanent ceasefire (possibly being enforced by a UN peacekeeping force), an exchange of hostages/prisoners, and a beginning of talks on how to create either a one-state (fantasy) or two-state solution that is agreeable to both parties.

And, previously I've speculated that this might have been the Hamas goal when it made its Oct 7 terrorist attack.

I've always referred to the Oct 7 attack as a "terrorist" attack and the indiscriminate (random, not targeting specific buildings or areas) of Gaza as despicable, and I have never defended the taking of hostages by either side or prisoners by either side. You are mistaking my acknowledgment of the reason Hamas and IDF use for doing such things as biased (antisemite). It's not. It's a two-way street, and I see both sides. You and your pro-(censored) cronies are the ones who only see one side of the street.

Hamas doesn't kill 30,000 civilians. The IDF does, and some of those are babies. Gaza death toll: More than 30,000 killed since Israel-Hamas war began, health ministry says | CNN

Yes, holding one-year-olds as hostages is a tactic of Hamas. Indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas are a tactic of Israel. Which is worse? Which causes the most destruction and loss of life? Sorry for the triplicate post.

Yes, holding one-year-olds as hostages is a tactic of Hamas. Indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas are a tactic of Israel. Which is worse? Which causes the most destruction and loss of life? Sorry for the duplicate post...

Yes, holding one-year-olds as hostages is a tactic of Hamas. Indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas are a tactic of Israel. Which is worse? Which causes the most destruction and loss of life?

"They," the radical, right-wing faction of which Netanyahu's government is a member, do want the eradication and elimination of the Palestine nation so Israel can totally occupy what it thinks is its literally God-given right to own. There will always be those who want Israel to share (or divide up) this land with the Palestinians who were living there before the state of Israel was created.

I'm tired of trying to post maps of Israel just to have them removed. I've done this many times in the past. If you really want to see how much land Israel has taken from the Palestinians, just search for "map Israel 1948" and then "map Israel 2023" and you'll see for yourself.

America (the USA) has many citizens from many different ethnic groups.