Hamas legalizes Crucifixion

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Final-Fan said:

1.  But now you seem to be defending an attitude of wanting to destroy the state of Israel, not denying it, as you did here:  "not recognizing its existance in maps, etc, is not the same thing as calling for its destruction".  It's a pretty fine line between wanting it to be gone, knowing that it will never leave unless it is destroyed, and calling for it to be destroyed. 

2.  I'd need to look into this more to be able to address the specific issues you mention.  But what do you mean by "still expanding"?  What new areas have been settled recently? 

3.   So you admit that genocide may have been the wrong word.  OK. 

Suggestions?  Callous is a good one.  Warlike would be accurate but probably too obvious; civilian casualties have been a sad byproduct of war forever.  Murderous would be too much of a stretch IMO since the civilians are not the target in your example, but an attack aimed at no particular target other than population centers is obviously trying to kill civilians and could be fairly called murderous. 

1. I have never called for the destruction of Israel. I do think that history shows it shouldn't exist, that the land should be 100% arab controlled, however, Israel is a soveign state and does exist. The millions of Jews living there deserve a peaceful home to prosper just as the Arabs do. I just recognize that Arabs would be shooting themselves in the foot to cede its existance on maps etc before Israel declares Palestine a state as well.

2. No *new* settlements, just expanding existing ones. i.e. taking more Palestinian land into already existing settlements.