I would have used a different second question, something on the lines of, and when the police and reporters showed up they cheer him on and try to arrest you if you do anything to defend yourself.

I like his approach to interviewing and I also like Joe J's question.

When someone wants to kill you, Is compromise something like allowing yourself to be beaten on alternate Tuesdays?

It shoudl be quite clear that a negotiated peace with Hamas is impossible, because peace is not what they seek. Bomb Gaza flat and bounce the rubble.

"I'd move. So should the Israeli's."

Move?

And then Hamas stays in power by rallying people to go out and kill Jews everywhere?

Or does the middle east collapse upon itself?

And then Hamas stays in power by rallying people to go out and kill Jews everywhere?

Or does the middle east collapse upon itself?

Neither is a good alternative, but I'll take the latter over the former.

Flynne, I'm guessing it would be both (the former to a lesser degree).

Sometimes I wish I could wave a magic wand and transport Israelites to safety until the remaining powers in the middle east duke it out, and the dust settles.

No you guys Israel was created by wrongfully stealing land, so in the same vein it's totally cool if Native Americans started suicide bombing our asses right?

Did you ever read about the Jewish land purchases in Palestine?

Yes? So?

That's not what people opposing Israel think happened.

Ppen, I can't read the tone well enough to tell if you're being ironic, or genuinely validating an alternative perspective.

Peace in the Middle East is a bad bet. If Israel wasn't there we'd have no more interest than we do in South Sudan. But Israel is there. Israel, while contentious and self-important (for me it's sort of hollow not being one of God's Chosen Ones) really is a civilization with a lot to offer(No dig at Streisand). We can't let that light go out.

"I'd move. So should the Israeli's."

Good answer, especially since there was nothing in the question about having your back to the sea with nowhere else to go.

Thanks for linking that. Interesting interview and I hope his suggestion solution would be taken seriously by the Israeli government.

Indeed, move where? This is their country, granted to them by the US. The agreement at the time was that the displaced population (which wasn't all that big) would be accepted by and absorbed into the surrounding Arab countries. For the interim, some temporary refugee camps were set up.

The surrounding Arab countries then refused to absorb the displaced population, preferring instead to use this population as a lever against Israel, which they actually didn't want to exist, and which they felt the UN has forced on them. Those temporary refugee camps became the Palestinians.

Granted, I am oversimplifying, but that's the situation as I understand it.

This doesn't help a lot today, but it is important background information. It demonstrates the fundamental Arab intransigence: They do not want Israel to exist. They proved this repeatedly through direct military attacks. When Israel beat them, they ultimately resorted to supported terror organizations like Hamas.

Hamas, at least, is now on the ropes. But don't worry, some other terrorist organization will replace it, quietly funded by donors throughout the world.

Sorry, by the UN, not the US. Dunno what happened with the weird italics either. I should use the preview button...

"Israel should move."

Maybe I'm biased (or bigoted or whatever, I don't care because as a white male I'm always a racist!); but, if ALL of Israel wanted to pack up and move to the US I'd take them in a heartbeat; especially, over those now trying to get in through the US's southern border.

Why? Because most of them would be hard-working, would come to love their new country, would be self-supporting, and make great neighbors. After all, look at the really great country that they built in the middle of that hell-hole called the Middle East.

Did you ever read about the Jewish land purchases in Palestine?

Jim,

. what percentage of the land did Jews legally own at the time of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine?

. what percentage of the land were Jews given under that plan?

Ppen: so in the same vein it's totally cool if Native Americans started suicide bombing our asses right?

Absolutely not. In the same vein, if the U.S. government decided to, say, confiscate the homes of all members of the Tea Party, it would be wrong for those members to retaliate using any kind of violence.

@JD,

Did you read the link?

I've started a petition on whitehouse.gov :

"Break US defense ties with Turkey and Qatar, who are supplying the missiles the Nazis of Hamas are firing at Israel!"

Please sign.

PPen, I came across this and wondered if this is what you were referring to:

"Let us not belabor the obvious truth that what the Western world calls an "energy" crisis ineptly disguises what happens when you can no longer control markets, are chained to your colonies (instead of vice versa), are running out of slaves (and can't trust those you think you still have), can't, upon rigorously sober reflection, really send the Marines, or the Royal Navy, anywhere, or risk a global war, have no alIies—only business partners, or "satellites"—and have broken every promise you ever made, anywhere, to anyone. I know what I am talking about: my grandfather never got the promised "forty acres, and a mule," the Indians who survived that holocaust are either on reservations or dying in the streets, and not a single treaty between the United States and the Indian was ever honored. That is quite a record."

Source:
http://m.thenation.com/article/159718-open-letter-born-again

Question 1: If I had a gun at hand (very unlikely), I would probably try to shoot him.
Question 2: I would escape from the house, then alert the police.

Then I would ask Amos Oz: Why do you think the answers to these two questions on a personal level are relevant to the question of the behavior and response of a state?