Would you approve of pagers detonations if your parentsâ(TM) or childrenâ(TM)s kidnappers were using them? Newsflash for you, almost every single Israeli knows someone who have been killed or kidnapped by Hezbollah/Hamas. Mossad/Shin Bet unveiled plans that revealed Hezbollah intended to reenact Oct 7th with more killings and kidnappings. Put yourself on israeli shoes and letâ(TM)s see if your moral confusion remains.

UN is a democratic entity taken over by not-democratic states. Iran, Russia and China dominates the agenda. Iran is or was the leader of the human rights group. What a joke. It is rotten to the core and must be rebuild.

That is simply not based on historical evidence. The US bombed and destroyed Nazi Germany and NUKED Imperial Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and today they are thriving democracies and allies. It is perfectly possible to root out the evil and bring a broke society back into the light. The problem is that in the case of palestine, the agency responsible to root out the darkness of palestine, UNRWA, was taken over by extremists and has been working for decades to do the exact opposite of what was (rightly) done to Germany and Japan.

"Applets, Flash and XUL and not platform dependent, and aren't large."
Java, Flash etc are platform dependent. Try to use the same install package on MAC OS and Windows.
A typical flash swf has more then 100kb. Compare that to a 1kb ajax code and tell me what is large...

"Neither does AJAX. You don't get back to the previous page state that way. Many users find this confusing."
Try to develop a full site in flash, then you'll see real confusion...

"It is the other way around - the web page was a glue connecting applets etc."
No applets no glue. AJAX is clean. Its the web 2.0, clean, fast and functional!
And ok, I agree "web" 2.0 is a marketeer's label for something you can't really label, but I think there is a clear trend happening here, that's undeniable. You can name it whatever you want, or dont name it at all. But the web is changing and I just love it! ;)