Well sorry, but add a fourth person to the list of people who think peace in that NJ-sized strip of land is a pipe dream. With or without Hamas.

My views are evolving constantly on this mess but I just can't get over how difficult it is to support the Palestinians on *anything*. 'Free Palestine'? Sorry, as if they could ever be free! If somehow magically all of HamsterAss disappeared tomorrow, another external genocidal nutbag group would take over, or it would be generated from within whatever Palestinians are left. Because hating Jews is what they do. Indoctrinated from birth. A fuckuva lot of them support Hamas, or at least support hating Jews and wanting to eliminate them. They don't have it in them to be free. 89% of them would love to see Palestine ruled by Sharia law, which never works out well for women (who suffer appalling amounts of domestic violence from their darling hubbies). They're pretty famously mega-homophobic, too. There's nothing more ludicrous than watching Team Rainbow wave their multicoloured flags around with their kaffiyehs. Gazans push people like that off of rooftops. *If* they can identify them. Since LGBTQ people there keep a very low profile, and running around with goofy hair colours and pierced noses doesn't go over well with the masturbates-to-Leni-Riefenstahl crowd.

They need a homeland because the three guys are right: Jews aren't safe anywhere in the world. They're as Indigenous to the land as the Palestinians. Sure, many of them came from somewhere else - Europe, after the war, and the Middle East, as they got kicked out or expelled from their home countries there, too. Neither were all the Palestinians born there either; many of them were kicked out, and no one else will take them back or in. Just ask Egypt.

I don't have the answers for that part of the world, *no one* does. But I don't believe Palestinians have it in them to be free. They love hatred and a genocidal view. They're dying by the droves because the death cult they voted for uses them as human shields. They strike me as being somewhat like the Trumpers: No matter how bad they get it from the folks who claim to represent them, they bend over again, spread their butt cheeks, and say, "Please, sir, may I have some more?"

Hamas located their headquarters under a hospital so the IDF would *have* to bomb it to get to them. Dead Palestinians are *great* press for them. Until the Gazans figure that out, and stop voting for the people who are *trying* to get them killed, they're going to reap what they sow.