Hamas: "You're welcome."

Collateral damage is what happens when you invade a foreign country and massacre its civilian population. FA is followed by FO.

Effective regulation aims to align private behavior with the public interest.

It's nice to see him run towards a threat, not away from it.

Bomb, Destroy, Sabotage?

Although it is technically true that hebephilia is not pedophilia, and that there are indeed different types of mental illness, child pornography remains child pornography. If the participants are below the age of 18, then by US law, the images are CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Materials). You're entitled to be aroused by anything — chairs, young girls, cars, guns, feet— but please don't be naïve. Society says that hebephilia is a sickness. If you're sickened by the penalty for breaking the law, I suggested you talk to the same therapist who treats your sexual perversions.

Try Artscroll, JPS, or Jewish Study Bible.

The truth is more mundane. It's an Israeli company because it was an Israeli startup by Israelis in Israel. Not everything Israeli is a conspiracy.

Citizens (or 'members of a tribe') tend to have the right to reside in their own country ('land'). You are correct. Non-citizens ('gentiles') have the right to apply for citizenship and become citizens ('Jews'). You are also correct. Expatriates ('diaspora Jews') tend to be allowed to reside in any country of which they are citizens ('Israel'). You are right.

One particular country ('Israel'), out of all countries, hasn't the right to exist as a safe place for its citizens (Israeli Jews, Israeli Christians, Israeli Druz, Israeli Arabs, and Israelis who merely self-identify as 'Israeli'). This is where you and I disagree.

Oh, and before you ask about the Palestinians' lack of Israeli citizenship, you should know that the Palestinians — even the ones who moved from Jordan post-'48 and, by your own standards, had no more right to be there than the Ashkenazi Jews — were offered citizenship three times. Their leaders refused.

If Israel is built on 'stolen land' then so are half the countries in the world. Singling out Israel for that reason would be intellectually dishonest. In the case of Israel, at worst, they conquered what used to be theirs and took it back; at best, they came home, notwithstanding your Replacement Theory.

In any case, Jews are unwelcome in half of the Middle East and have been for centuries. I suggest you accept that Israel not only exists but *needs* to exist. Fortunately for Israel, its existence is not contingent on the world's ability to acknowledge that.

The Ottoman Empire, you mean...? Or do you mean Britain? Perhaps you mean Transjordan?

"Ashkenazi (sic) are Central Asian peoples... have zero historical claim on the Levant"

Who died and made you the Lorax of Jewish identity? The Jews are a tribe, and the ancestral claim — valid or not — to Jewish land isn't tied to a specific ethnic group within Am Yisrael. Don't be silly.

"Descendants basically have to suck it up and admit that the bad guys win sometimes."

Yeah, that's how most Israelis look at the Jordanian occupation of Judaea and Samaria. Jordan de-Jew-ified the area as much as possible during the occupation. So, by the time it ended, the Jews were gone and only Arabs remained. What you call 'The West Bank' is a de facto ethnostate, whereas Israel is a salad bowl of different cultures. C'est la vie.

Israel, like every other country in the Middle East, has a right to exist. Get over it. As for Judaea and Samaria, a two-state solution is not only possible but desirable for all concerned. Netanyahu and his cronies need to get over that. Perhaps you and I can find common ground there. What do you think?

Don't worry. Iran will built similar devices and send them to Hamas. Then (almost) everyone will be happy.

"No, what's not recognized is Jewish claims to any part of Palestine."

Are you talking about Jewish Palestine, Arab Palestine, or Syria Palaestina?

Ah, so the Jews have to leave Israel. OK. Are the Arab Israelis allowed to stay?