[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by ianch99

I've told you, others have told you. New pair of reading glasses needed?

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By accident or design, you have focused on the primary reason lying at the core of this conflict and that is the extreme demands of the Ultra-Zionist factions that have had hands on the levers of power over the decades. It is their religious zealotry that has perverted the agenda in the pursuit of the dream of their biblical Greater Israel. A land cleansed, to the best of their ability, of Arabs.

Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1948 but refused it:

Why Did Einstein Refuse the Presidency of Israel?

His words were prescient:

It's by design. I said that the Ultras lie at the core of the problem facing Israel.

But the Ultras do not justify the barbarity of Hamas when they murdered 1200 Israelis.

As regards Einstein, he was entitled to his views; indeed his characterisation of Begin (one of Likud's founders and a terrorist leader in the British Mandate days) was absolutely correct. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be an Israel (which was Einstein's view). The UN in 1947 thought there should be an Israel, hence there is an Israel.

But to come back to immediate matters, should Israel not have retaliated against Hamas, thus ensuring no Gazan civilian casualties? Or what?