The viewing of a house destroyed by Hezbollah rockets would naturally make her more sensitive to that aspect of it, and more allergic to anything that sounded too pro-Hezbollah. As for grey areas, I talk like that, or have in the past. I’ve finally lost almost all patience with Israel–for the most part, they deserve the same respect a defender of apartheid should have received. My attitude used to be that blame for the conflict should be split 70 percent Israeli, 30 percent Palestinian. Nowadays I’d go more 90/10 or maybe even higher. Maybe Emma is where I was until fairly recently. But when it comes to the killing of civilians, yeah, both sides do it, even if Israel does it much more and so in that sense there is a gray area. So Emma very much sounded like me for the most part, or the uneasiness I feel about “lining up” with one side of a conflict to the extent that one can’t condemn atrocities on both sides (without equating the scale or provocations involved). In her case she might be an Israeli or American Jew who really does agree with most of the criticism made here of Israel, but who also wants to persuade her cohorts and so doesn’t want to be linked in any way with support for people who shoot rockets indiscriminately. Which is reasonable.

There were one or two false notes in her posts, or so it seemed to me, but that’s not conclusive of anything. The fact that she hasn’t come back is the most suspicious aspect of her to me, given her patience, but again not conclusive.

Which is all I think I’ll say on this. Bad enough some of us (including me) talk about RW all the time.

Just goes to show how little distance there is between the religions! Exactly what I do! I wash the dishes, and my wife cleans and loads the pistol she shot her first husband with. When she’s done with that, she works on her knitting. She’s knitting me a shroud! What a helpmeet, huh?

Now there’s an objective standard which could never, ever be self serving! Good for them! What high standards they set for themselves.
Government by imaginery visionary.

About the settlements they keep repeating:
- Why Israel should justify its urban policy, why Arabs or US should interfere its decisions to build or not residential areas, its like if Italy or belguim tell France whether they should build or not residential areas, this is motivated by the anti-semi

i will give you an example: A commentator called “Un mot de vérité ” in English that means “Word of truth”, he appears only when ‘Lemonde’ publish an article about Israel. There are some of his comments that you can translate in google translation:

” Faut-il plaindre les souffrances d’un agresseur qui a subi une défaite dans son agression inhumaine d’une population civile ? La société arabo-palestinienne s’est lancée en 2000-2007 dans une guerre d’attentats-suicides en réponse à la générosité volontaire israélienne des accords d’Oslo (1993), de celui de Wye Plantation en 1995 entre Nétanyahou et Arafat, du traité de paix proposé par le premier-ministre israélien en 2000 avec un partage de Jérusalem. Le jihad et la paix sont-ils compatibles ?”

or

” C’est un parti pris en faveur de la Ligue arabe d’Obama. Une cynique propagande que de parler de “colonialisme” là où la frontière de 1967 n’est qu’une ligne d’armistice suite à l’agression arabe en 1948. L’antique quartier juif de la veille ville de Jérusalem(-Est) a été vidé de sa population : sa restauration après 1967 est donc aussi une “colonisation” ? Cet absurde même Mahmoud Abbas ne dira pas. Pourquoi alors le quartier Ramat Shlomo ? Parce qu’il faut étouffer le Jérusalem israélien ? “