Reply #11: I find it amazing that you would buy into Hamas' point of

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view. I know you aren't very fond of Israel but really. Is Hamas now the equivalent of Israel? Seriously????

Beyond that - try and look at this one simple point: no extremist, religious Jew would be married to a Christian.

If you want to get into the conspiracy theory angle, I could just as easily suggest it was a deliberate attempt to make Israel look bad and stir up the Arabs - which in fact is what has happened.

Now, I'm willing to take the story at face value: a mentally disturbed group of people with financial problems, did something really, really stupid.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

It does appear as though you desperately want to believe this is something political. Do you WANT violence? Do you WANT this to be a trigger for another war?

And, as a "progressive", do you seriously believe Hamas, with its racist, antisemitic, anti-feminist, anti-secular and violent point of view, to be more trustworthy than the Israelis even though you really detest Israel?