No, Markus doesn’t want us dead. He wants Arabs dead – thousands of them – because that is what will happen if Hamas continues its psychotic religious behavior. It’s inevitable.

And Markus, Hamas could be at the meeting table in ten minutes if they renounced the destruction of Israel (just as Arafat could have had a state in ten minutes, if he had really wanted one). Everyone knows that, including Hamas. (Arafat knew it and ran away from Clinton, literally) But they are caught in a bind because if Israel is allowed to exist, Hamas has no reason for being. Their whole religious raison d’etre is a lie. So we are dealing with insanity – a truly self-destructive one. Until there is honesty about that – instead of fuddy duddy bourgeois liberal palaver like yours, Markus, – nothing will change.