...his plea to the Israelis to stop expanding settlements (nb, not remove the ones they have)

Aye; that's the nub. The entire country is one expanding settlement, but each individual settlement built past the Green Line is (yet another) violation of the Geneva Accord, as is each apartheid road built between them, as is the Wall.

How the Israelis have turned into their own worst nightmares is a study in mankind's ability to justify anything, then doing it repeatedly, escalated and writ large in order to prove to others that the original (and each subsequent) error was well thought out and worthy of validation.

Would that we worked and escalated so intensely to prove how justified our acts of kindness are, but instead we only get to study such behavior in the development of criminal behavior.

How the Israelis will ever make reparations for their century of terror (essentially upon another of their own family line) will be another interesting study. Has anyone started making book on when that will start and how much that will be?

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland