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Yes, the breath-taking hypocrisy of it all is staggering.

Yes, that is true, but sadly Hamas have played on this long enough, knowing that eventually Israel will be stopped due to international pressure, as they always have been when gaining military superiority, as in 1967 and 1973. Were the Israelis to stop now, I imagine it would leave Hamas largely...

I think this assessment is called simplistic.

I know you were not addressing me, but for what it is worth, I don't think they are hate marches, as i am sure that most are well meaning -the good folk in the next road go down to town each Saturday with their Palestine flags and are genuinely appalled at what is going on, though have also...

Your answer - so simple isn't it. You ask hamas, possibly via an intermediary, for the return of the hostages, they obligingly agree and let you know who they are, so you can eliminate them. Then you tip toe through Gaza, shooting any terrorist, avoiding those used as shields and any damage to...

No I did not do this: had you properly read the posts, you might have realised that I was replying to the suggestion that wars can never solve anything, and whilst that might largely be true, in the case of the campaign against Hitler, it really did create a much better and freer Germany as well...

Sorry -I did realise that, but I was just quoting your wording. Sometimes, war does solve problems, however, and the decision to go for the jugular against Hitler and insist on unconditional surrender, so that there could be no more suggestions of stabbing in the back, as after WW1, meant that...

yes, I see what you are saying and in theory you are quite right. But in practice a limited proportional response, as you suggest, realistically will not destroy Hamas, who are more than happy, apparently, to use civilians as shields. I am old enough to clearly remember 1967, 1973 and the...

I don't know as much abut this as you do, so this is a genuine question. I am sure that I looked at Wikipedia and saw that hamas gained 44% of the vote in 2006 -the last election held in Gaza, as they have strangled all opposition since. Was Hamas a nice cuddly organisation then or did it...

Well said. Absolutely correct.

I see what you are saying, of course, and yes, it does seem incredulous, but never forget that the mindset of fundamentalist muslim organisations such as Hamas is very different to our way of thinking. If I may give you an example; my mate was posted to Bosnia after the war as part of the peace...

Like most others, I assumed that it was a result of an air strike, given what has been happening. But then it all seems so convenient for Hamas. A hospital of all places, perhaps with inflated death toll figures, plus the fact that Biden is visiting today, and they hope he will now put pressure...

Might it be because the border crossing remains closed?

Whilst you are right in that Germany was on its knees by then, you glibly state that it was unnecessary. Dresden was and still is an important rail hub, used at the time for transporting what material they could muster to bolster resistance against the advancing Russians. We now have hindsight...

We have to be consistent. In order for Nazism to be defeated -and seen by all to be defeated - The Allies insisted on unconditional surrender and the invasion plus bombing of Germany was deemed to be necessary, even though thousands of civilians, who may or may not have been innocent, died as a...

Yes, as you say, that is certainly the risk. Perhaps the one glimmer of hope might be that other areas of the Middle East are rather more moderate and if the Israelis equally show willing, then there might at last be some sort of peace. If there is a bloodbath in the coming weeks, then it might...

Yes, you are quite right -Hamas should be the target, and rightly so. But if the Israelis simply bomb a house or two, shoot off a couple of bullets, and say boo to appease the rest of the world, understandably desperate to avoid thousands of deaths, Hamas will not go away and we start all over...

Yes, fully agree in that it has been going on for ages and both sides must share some of the blame for this. My brother was in the area for years and often said that the Israelis were quite vindictive towards the Palestinians, which doubtless goes some way to explaining their hatred of Israel...