Some citizens, politicians and military personnel stubbornly cling to the absurd argument that the gangs of savage thugs who torch, ravage and expel entire Palestinian communities in the West Bank are merely a handful of 'wild weeds'

The poison machine is a web orchestrated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the ones doing the work are ministers, mouthpieces in the media and an army of 'activists'

Amendments introduced last week under pressure from Arab and Muslim states, as well as several Security Council members, include a reference to the possibility of establishing a future Palestinian state – after which Netanyahu reiterated Israel's opposition to such a state