re: Israel appropriates more West Bank land for probable settlements

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Just what do you think are the aims of Hamas? Ethnic cleansing would be putting it mildly. They do not just want to displace Jews. They want to kill them all. Yet, you seem to have no objection to their actions designed to achieve their objective. It is amazing you do not recognize that you are one of the people here who thinks ethnic cleansing is a morally acceptable way for the Palestinians to settle a political dispute.

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Hamas is not oppressing Israelis, nor or they in a position to do so. For the record, I don't support the ethnic cleansing of anyone, anywhere at any time, and if the tables were turned, and the U.S. was blindly supporting a group of people who were in the process of ethnic cleansing Jews from Palestine, I would oppose that to, and therein in lies the difference between people like me and people like you. You gladly support Likud's ethnic cleansing of Gentiles from Palestine because of what you believe Hamas might do, while I would never support Hamas' ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel despite the fact that I already know what they have always stood for going back to the days when it still called itself Irgun.

Did you know that the IDF routinely demolishes the homes of the relatives of Gentiles who are merely SUSPECTED of killing Jewish settlers, while it does nothing to the relatives of Jews even when they admit to killing Gentiles, such as the Palestinian kid who was burned alive a month ago? Furthermore, the Israeli courts have defended this discrepancy in punishment since it has ruled that draconian punishments are justified to fight "terrorism", but an act can only be considered "terrorism" if the victims are Jewish. Under the same rationale, Israel seizes funds from the PLO's treasury to compensate the families of Jewish murder victims when the murderer is suspected to be Palestinian, but of course it makes no compensation to Palestinian murder victims when the murderer is Jewish.

That's life in "the Mideast's only democracy" which is also "America's staunchest ally".