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Said the lazy fat man. You're telling me you want peace and I have no reason to believe you.

Of course I want them gone, religious conservatives are the bane of human existence.

What do you think will happen when you don't need people to work but people need to work?

It's no wonder at all, that chip the size of Mt Everest on your shoulder is as obvious as Mt Everest. But sure, you want Hamas to be evaporated. I get that. Then what?

Trump and Putin supporters are fine with not sharing if that's the case.

I don't know, probably a big one that can make a commitment. Have you tried using your own imagination? Seriously though, I often don't think there is a solution. That entire ME region is thoroughly hooped and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. It'll just be a perennial state of hatred death and destruction - its just another big mess we'll have to leave to people in the future to figure out. So what's your wish?

Of course I have. I've suggested a number of times a large international peace keeping force to keep Israelis and Palestinians away from one another until such time as things cool off enough they can talk again. Granted that'll likely take two or three generations but it is what it is.

Go tell it to the victims of dictators, autocrats and warlords the US sicced on several hapless populations around the world. When the Shiniest Beacon for liberty and freedom behaves this way...well, just take a look around the world. How do you think so much of it got this way?

Workfare isn't exactly a new idea, some countries have had work houses for the poor before. I think a resurgent moral imperative to not be a drag on society along with the rise of AI and automation in the workplace might result in an even stranger dystopian world.

When I say Hamas members should be tried for crimes against humanity what do you hear - what do you take away from that? It seems you're the one who's stuck not me.

Then what?

Okay, but then what? What's Israel's solution?

To explain why Hamas exists, not justify what it does. Meanwhile how come you always run away from Israeli complicity in the worsening ME Conflict? Some do and are murdered for doing so. Jewish terrorists killed Jews who got in their way too.

Palestinians live with subjugation everyday, I doubt they'll ever quit resisting. Would you?

No I don't think that. What do you think justifies Israel doing the sorts of things that causes Palestinian resistance and countries like Canada, France and the UK to also take action against Israel?

No, I'm suggesting Israel should stop doing the sorts of things to Palestinians that cause them to resist. What would do if you were in their shoes?

If you say so. What about the oxygen powering it - just carry on providing it? That's the problem, Hamas is merely a symptom.

Several ways I suppose, democratically, militarily, politically. Where does it get the oxygen it needs to power itself?

No, you're still completely full of shit.

I'm not one who's confused. It's exactly what happened.

No, my name is not Netanyahu. I oppose their disgraceful inhuman methods of doing so.

They became the IDF. Or their victims? Go tell it to a world that's looking more closely at Israel and considering what sort of action to take against it for what it's inflicting against human beings in Gaza and the Westbank. People definitely care what happens.

I've had the same P.O. box # in town for 50 years - 20 minutes by truck or 10 by boat to get there. These days it's often closed early due to staff shortages. I remember when a postie job was often something people sought after. It's weird times.

When I was 12 I landed a paper route. Soon I was mowing lawns, raking leaves and shoveling snow all along the same route. When I was 14 one of my customers offered me a job working in his shop. It's definitely practical to work hard and show interest when you're a kid.

It didn't take much to give Irgun, Haganah and other Zionist terrorists the respectability they still seem to enjoy to this day.