Subject: Re: Who will fight for you?
All over the place. It's not like the Saudis haven't called on them to stop funding the Houthis, for example.

Really? There's a major party candidate in the race who is saying no such thing. She's been all over trying to play both sides of the issue.

Hamas put Israel in a position where it had NO CHOICE but to issue the curb-stomping. The Iranians aren't idiots so they should have understood that and accepted the outcome.

The death cult stuff you can't handle with a deal. But getting rid of the death cult stuff wouldn't solve the problem. The problem is the disconnect between Palestinian national aspirations and the reality on the ground. There are millions of Palestinians who aren't part of a death cult but who still want their own nation, and many of them are willing to fight not because they want to abolish Israel, but rather because they want autonomy and independence for their people.

I'm not so sure, especially in Gaza. These people teach their kids to hate Jews just like they teach them to breathe. If I'm Israel, I'm game planning what a proto-state of "Gaza" would look like and am having serious discussions with the Egyptians, Saudis and Jordanians about

a) who runs it
b) who's *not* allowed to run it
c) consequences for bad beahvior
d) who funds it
e) consequences for misallocated funds

That's why this is so complicated - so much more complicated than your dismissals of the opposing arguments.

Sound bites aren't arguments. I will grant you that the intellectual level of some of the lefties here maxes out at the sound bite level, so to your point perhaps I should take that into account.