[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

This is where the illogic jumps out at you. There are hundreds - thousands - of suicide bombers and gunmen to replace the ones in the Church of the Nativity. If Israel was interested in their own real security and long-term diplomatic interests, they would pull back and let the Palestinian gunmen in the Church leave without incident.

[uncbob]

There are hundreds - thousands - of suicide bombers and gunmen to replace the ones in the Church of the Nativit

I wouldn't bet on it

[history_matters]

This is where the illogic jumps out at you. There are hundreds - thousands - of suicide bombers and gunmen to replace the ones in the Church of the Nativity. If Israel was interested in their own real security and long-term diplomatic interests, they would pull back and let the Palestinian gunmen in the Church leave without incident.

Your post was so concise and on target I thought it should be posted again.

[history_matters]

This is where the illogic jumps out at you. There are hundreds - thousands - of suicide bombers and gunmen to replace the ones in the Church of the Nativity. If Israel was interested in their own real security and long-term diplomatic interests, they would pull back and let the Palestinian gunmen in the Church leave without incident.

Your post was so concise and on target I thought it should be posted again and again.

[happygrl]

This is where the illogic jumps out at you. There are hundreds - thousands - of suicide bombers and gunmen to replace the ones in the Church of the Nativity.

This is where the illogic jumps out at you.

If hundreds and thousands of civilians want to become homocide bombers and gunman, then civilians themselves are combatants and cannot claim exemption from war tactics.

To be fair, the conduct of the monks and nuns is more akin to the true idea of a martyr than the pseudo-martyrdom of the homocide bombers.