This is your real agenda and hope isn’t it Richard? That anger and disgust at Israel will dissipate and that things will return to the pre Gaza massacre status quo and Israel can go on flouting world opinion, UN Resolutions, stealing land and buthcering Palestinians.

This explains your insistence that treating Israel with kid gloves is the only solution, because soon emough, the I/P situation and the Goldstone Report will be displaced from the front pages and the world’s attention will have moved on.

Keep showing us that ugly face behind the mask you wear. I kind of liked Phantom of the Opera for the plot, if not so much for the music.

Of course many of the “Europeans” are choosing to leave Israel without anyone forcing them, because it is such a militarized and conflicted society, and life anywhere else–the U.S., Latin America, Goa–seems like paradise compared to it.

And it is not inaccurate to portray the Zionists as the “invaders.” The word “invade” means to enter for conquest, to encroach upon, infringe, or spread over as if invading. Regardless of the better intentions of some early Zionists, the historical reality of Zionism is an invasion and attempted ethnic cleansing of Palestine. And that view is “applauded” whether stated by Ilan Pappé or Benny Morris.

Without all the lawyers, guns, and money Israel commands from the U.S., the integration of the immigrant European population into the local fabric would probably occur quickly and peacefully.

But by “defending itself militarily,” by which Richard means aggressively and brutally dominating the indigenous population, it engenders hatred, violent resistance, and rejection, all of which cycles into more “defending itself militarily.” It’s a script that the Crusaders of the 11th and 12th centuries already wrote. And the ending is known.

But please, don’t anybody spoil it for Richard!

Hariri said, “In Lebanon, one believes nothing that one hears, and only half of what one sees.”

Taxi is predicting/proposing war to forcefully remove all of the Europeans from the land.

If there is ANY sentiment that could be reported anywhere to support the likud “which side are you on” thesis, that is it.

You live in a real fantasy world to think that Israel will disappear, or will not defend itself militarily and every other way, for a century.

Emotions don’t last that long. To base a century-long war on either anger or “exhaustion” (from those with children, the word is “responsibility”, not “exhaustion”), is a sickness.

Angers are passing, if you let them pass, and if you bother to establish new relationships.

If you want to separate the Israelis/Jews from the Lebanese have restrictive and isolated borders. You know “good fences make good neighbors”, sometimes, hopefully rarely. Good conversations make good neighbors in fact. (Somehow in taxi’s summary, the “Europeans” must leave).

It is also the neo-conservative formula. “The Europeans are the invaders. It is civilizational conflict.” Applauded when “resistance” states it.

Fanatic view, from Lebanon. And, “it makes sense” (to other fanatics only, not to the mature or responsible).