Hi Julied
It is those kind of remarks that stop me from having any faith in what you have to say in the forums
I had a bet this morning that you could not resist reiterating facts that you have already beaten to death
As usual you are running true to form
I would observe your last comment as a rather cynical remark coming from someone who feels the need to voice his negative opinions, invited or not, at every given opportunity that may arise.
You certainly are a dramatist, Julied
It might help to look on the bright side and consider the fact that we are doing tremendously well considering all the issues that keep arising from impatient members
These are being addressed as we speak and every effort is being made to release the updates as soon as is humanly possible
So please give your mouth a rest for once and try to enjoy the experience here in the forums

Careful, Harvey, you're liable to start a fan club.

Not that you give a crap. But that's exactly why I'd join it.

However, it appears that the bottom line is now clear. Apparently it had long ago been decided that this Forum was designed to function strictly as a technically oriented support site; a source of information dissemination; and as a recruitment tool for corporate WCG - and nothing else.

"No!" my friend, you have taken my; dry sense of humour, out of context and become defensive,
Julied, how did you possibly miss the
Here are three more so you don’t miss the point this time

Not everyone agrees that silence is desirable. I'm a short timer and not a history buff but your comments always seem to point out an alternative view of the issues that should not be dismissed.

Hoping that this is a bit of drama and not a permanent conditon!

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
- John Lord Morley

Most of the above posts are based upon geopolitical considerations. Geopolitical dynamics have a logical internal structure. By using geopolitical reasoning, both sides to this conflict can mount and sustain a completely valid argument to support their position.

Compromise agreements which allow for the division of contested valued and limited resources are the standard tools used to resolve geopolitical conflicts. By applying geopolitical logic to the Palestinian conflict, we are mistakenly applying the right logic to the wrong problem.

The current Palestinian/Israeli crisis not a geopolitical conflict: It is a religious/ethnic conflict. This is more properly called internecine warfare. It exists when any group perceives that the continued physical existence of any other group poses an imminent threat to their own biological survival.

It is an historical fact that internecine warfare is the most irrational and persistent of all intra-species human conflicts. Unfortunately, it appears to be rooted in some primitive biological imperative which is as fundamental to our species as is the genetic code that causes us to be born with 2 legs. It is endemic throughout our planet. Africa is a chilling case in point.

Furthermore, our species has obviously evolved some powerful biological mechanism which allows, or compels, the human being to temporarily subvert or suspend all other faculties and drives (reasoning, morality, etc.) when faced with the perceived threat of annihilation or assimilation by other competing ethnic/religious groups.

Typically the internecine struggle continues until one group achieves total dominance, either through the complete destruction and/or genetic assimilation (really the same thing), of all competing factions.

Occasionally internecine conflict can be halted when it becomes evident to one or more groups involved in the struggle that only through the termination of hostilities can they themselves avoid inevitable annihilation. These forced compromises, however, usually only last as long as it takes for any sufficiently powerful competing group to exploit a perceived advantage to resume hostilities: Or, until the then dominant group no longer perceives the other competing groups are as a threat to their own survival. Gradual genetic assimilation is then often used to complete the annihilation process.

It is important to realize that it takes only one group to act on the belief that the continued existence of some other competing faction(s) constitutes an imminent threat to their biological survival, to initiate and sustain internecine warfare.

While there has been cultural and ethnic hostility in this area for millennia, the dynamics have changed. As pointed out in the earlier post by the Muslim leader here in the US, the Wahhabi influence on Islamic culture has produced a religious/cultural doctrine within many Muslim countries in which internecine warfare is an official religious and moral imperative. This one single factor has transformed the traditional historical geopolitical conflict into the present internecine conflict. When viewed from this perspective, the failure to find a viable compromise solution should come as no surprise to anyone.

This argument has nothing to do with the geopolitical or humanitarian tragedy that plagues the historic region known as Palestine. Innocent civilians of both sides are always caught in the carnage. Internecine struggle assumes, by definition, that there are no innocent civilians. Inevitably, very real blame will always be justifiably leveled against all sides to the conflict.

Any potentially viable and permanent solution to this conflict must offer a resolution to all of the underlying dynamics which fuel this ongoing humanitarian nightmare. This will never happen until we first recognize that our current naïve geopolitical understanding of this conflict is fundamentally limited and flawed.