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Zukhov: To even theorize that Yassin was a pacifist is insane. He WAS Hamas. Yassin was a convicted criminal released in 1997 as part of a prisoner trade. He approved and financed every killing, and acted as a combatant. The death penalty would be judicial, while a target killing of a combatant is debatable within the context of the Geneva Conventions.

Obviusly . the IDF exists like all national armies, to defend it's borders, it's purpose is not to "create terrorists" or "strangle it's people". At it's core the IDF is already a peoples army.

Hamas teaches sing alongs to four year olds, who aren't old enough to even comprehend the concept of "revenge" on their own, about killing Jews. Not Israelis, Jews.

Socialist Zionism was founded in formal terms by Nachman Syrkin in 1899, when it became clear that the Socialist Revolution wasn't going to solve the needs of the Jewish Diaspora. Nobody agreed on specifics, so there were several Socialist Zionist parties, and some of them were actually Marxists. Most of Israel's Settlements movements grew out of the Socialist party, which also gave way to the aptly named Labor political party, where every Prime Minister up till 1977 came out of. David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Moshe Sharett, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Abba Eban, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak all represented the Labor party.

Burbank: It helps when you include the words "Does not", thanks. Oh wait, then you back pedal and say Israel is on track for this erradication/removal thing anyway.