It seems that you are very good at twisting my words.
Who the hell said "recommended Americans to cover up war crimes to "win" "???
I said that they cannot win because human rights issues will prevent them from carrying on brutal retaliation with more bombardment and killings. The pressure from US and various western watchdogs will have a big cry if that happens. War is brutal and if you leave the brutal part out, you cannot win. Even with brutal destruction, it is not always mean victory. However, without that, you will for sure not get it.
Remember how Germany Surrendered??? The whole Berlin was bombed to rubbles and nowadays such brutal destruction will be highly unlikely without news day in and day out and far cry of human right violations.
How did Japanese Surrender? They did not even do that after the Tokyo is so heavily bombed and Iwo Jima was all wiped out. Well, after two nuclear bombs was dropped, they finally surrendered. That happened about 66 years ago, not that long actually. How was real war ended? That is the brutal way.
Hamas really care less and they just do not have the technology and weapons. Israel do have the technology and weapons but they have to refrain from using them. I bet Hamas, Talibans and Bin Laden would like (I do think they have called for that already) to liberate their Muslim Brothers from China's control to set up a pure Muslim country in China. Well, the problem is that we China know how to deal with them and deal with them quickly and effectively. We will butchered any terrorists that harm our Chinese.
Same thing applies for US. US has the best weapon systems and but they cannot use the world war II ways on those Talibans because this is not a world war but its war on terror.
Please do not cry brutal and say we China won't do that. Do you know how general Wang Zhen dealt with those uighur terrorists. If any PLA soldier got killed by a terrorist from a village, he would set up canon to ask the village to give the suspects out. If they did not, PLA soldiers would go in and kill directly whoever may be the suspects. If there was any defense, the canon would fire to wipe out the whole village. During the time of crisis, PLA soldiers were asked to shoot any Uighur groups with more than four or five walking together. Even Uighur terrorists who planned terrorists activities but was captured without being able to do (attempted terrorists) it was shoot dead right away. That is brutal but quite effective. You know what Uighur called him: 王胡子。 They are terrified of him and use his name to calm down crying babies. That is why even Chairman Mao had to ask Xi ZhongXun (dad of the next Chinese president: Xi Jinping) to tell General Wang to tone down.
BTW, do you know why there are very few Hui Muslim in Shaanxi and fewer Mongolians in North Xinjiang??? In the 18th and earlier 19th century, there are a lot of Hui Muslim in Shaanxi and Uighurs were only in south Xinjiang and North Xinjiang was the power base of the Mongolians. .
The reason is very simple. Due to their rebellions and killing of so many Han Chinese, Qing's emperor QianLong and later Empress CiXi asked their Generals to crashed them and wiped them out. Well, they were indeed wiped out quite effectively. Otherwise, Uighurs would not be able to move to North XinJiang later
Nobody asked US to cover anything. My comments just evaluate the situation and said that they would fail due to their limitations. And that is it.
It's hard to believe this generally sensible post is from the same dude who just recommended Americans to cover up war crimes to "win" (in the other thread) ...
Well maybe I got a little "emotional" myself indeed - in response to your Gaza rocket outburst there. Still, your out-of-context rant was inexcusable.
But it's good for you to come around to the mainstream on this one, at least. It's all about defending the "defensible" ... Settlements are not part of the "defensible" so there is no need to defend them. Actually it's counter-productive to defend them.
You can always speak up on "divestment" if you wish to defend "your friends" from being singled out "unfairly".
Now just to help you along, only minor clarifications (based on my knowledge): There are essentially no sizable Christian Zionists among the Catholics and the Orthodox. Many Catholics are not even pre-millennial ... anyways, there is no need to get overly technical here.
And Armenian Orthodox may support Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem for different reasons ... on that I am not sure myself. Someone would have to educate me.
And definitely not the Copts - to my knowledge.