Ira,

Worked in Kibbutz Kifar Gileadi, just outside of Kiryat Shemona.

In the fields and kitchens beside diminutive Polish women with their sleeves rolled up to expose black ink tattoos with the distinctive European 7.

It was the first time I had heard the whisper talk of Yiddish from women who were teenagers and somehow survived the Holocaust.

Stunned into silence when I visited Vag Yashem, not that it should give me any extra credo, everyone should.

The point I was trying to make is of course it's divide and conquer, read enough Sun Tzu and Machiavelli and Von Clauzewitz to grasp that.

And please, Netanyahu listens to the UN only when its convenient.

If not, then 700,000 illegal West Bank settlers would have moved back home.

These wars?

More land? More settlers in the West Bank?More offshore gas fields. More oil?

You seem to be okay with treating the dispossessed as if they have no right to strike back.

Hello?

I studied and admired the doomed '43 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' and read that the fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths"

Are the Palestinians any less of a people?

Two state solution?

Not until both sides go through a truth and reconciliation process. My country has been trying for decades with our Indigenous peoples. It's a tough but necessary road.

Otherwise, people will start to see the country from which I learned so much, vilified...without any outside help.