Israel/Palestine

with what he does in the name of "security" with a wish to see Israel destroyed and with hatred of Jews.

If you hate what Israelis go through you need to acknowledge that a LOT of what Israelis go through each day is down to his lifelong ideological(not security, but ideological)opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state and his and his party's insistence expanding the West Bank settlements.

I deeply dislike a lot of what the Palestinian leadership does. But nothing the Israeli government is doing in the name of "security" has any chance of ever changing those tactics OR causing the existing Palestinian leadership to be displaced by anything better.

And displacing either Fatah or Hamas as leaders in order to sign an agreement would be useless, because even if displaced, those two organizations would still have most of the guns...which would make any agreement signed with anyone else utterly devoid of value.

Carrying on the status quo is the definition of insanity. Why defend what has never worked? Why equate any public criticism of what has been done with bigotry?

Finally, I don't live in Israel...but "Israeli" the poster does. So it's not your place to accuse her of calling for her own country to take unacceptable risks. She lives there, and as a kibbutznik, she walks the walk of being what a Zionist was supposed to mean-a commitment to building both a place of safety and a model for what a just society should be, as opposed to the empty and meaningless exercise of taking land for the SAKE of taking land. She lives in the place you and I only discuss...perhaps you should take that as proof that she can be trusted to take a responsible view on all of this.