Sorry Max.

Don't want to talk for her, wouldn't dare, but what I thought she was writing was that it was complex and therefore, subordinating the investigation and study necessary to comment cogently to simple knee jerk reactions such as 'free palestine', was antithetical to engaging in the kind of educated dialogue which can lead to solutions.

Tired tropes and false narratives do not an accurate history make. People living on specks of land, which happens to be their land, do not want to be told, by whom again, and at the end of a gun, that it is not their land anymore.

And that's not getting into the 750,000 or so Palestinians who fled the violence in the first place and then were not allowed back onto that speck of land.

They represented about 85% of the population living in what became Israel, but by your reckoning, they were all crowded into some speck.

Both Israelis and Palestinians are traumatized peoples.

Minimizing the trauma suffered by one, they were living like peasant shepherds, they could have had their own state but refused, while deifying the other, they suffered the Holocaust and caused the desert to bloom, will not bring an end to the conflict.

Truth and Reconciliation is the only process to bring about a two state solution...and a two state solution is the only way to end the violence.