So then you are just smart-assing, or maybe trolling, thus far? Please correct me if I am wrong, and this might be yet another instance wherein politics meets religion, and, if so, I am more than willing to take the discussion to the Religion forum, but are you not more than a "friend" of Israel? I have no problem, or even argument, with friends of Israel, as such, but you can rightly know that I do have serious problems with those who might like to ignore the technology, namely in this case surveillance, that not only is reportedly being used against Palestinians, but might one day be used to locate and imprison those of us who fight a Beast, i.e., globally totalitarian system; the very system which, again only as I have understood, those of your "Dispensationalist," pre-trib view think you will for the most part avoid by being raptured to Heaven -that is, if you stop saying fuck
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You are the one who, thus far, is blowing hard. I, personally, am not a defender of BDS, for the same reason that the sometimes respectable Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other NGO's often censure Israel: it, to my view, is "collective punishment," in this case, of Israelis, many of whom are searching for fair and eqitable solutions to the problems of Israeli and Palestinian relations. Anyway, BDS, as I read it, is not the topic of this thread, so it's moot and a potential de-rail. I might also add, for reasons of balance, that the Alan Dershowitzians have added more than their alloted share of carbon combined with hydrogen to the atmosphere with their seemingly tireless defenses of the Israeli status quo.