Thanks very much for your reply. Actually, I do "compare the Palestinian refusal to compromise with white supremacist dreams of ridding America of Black people." But that may be because I lived in the South at the time of almost total white supremacy, and I've never forgotten my horror at, for example, being told by the kid who sat in front of me in Georgraphy that his weekend entertainment was to get in an older friend's car, drive back roads until a "nigger" was found, rope him, and drag him behind the car until he fell and then, finally, quit screaming. I do understand that Hamas is horrifying. I really do. Israel treated Palestinians as second-class people; Hamas, on the other hand, would like to annihilate Israelis. As you say.