Though I am not certain, I think that this temporary occupation of A-territory did in fact fulfill its purpose.. And it wasn't a tour-de-force, in my opinion..

I'd rather not say. Just think - if you had 24 hours of cutting the Gaza Strip in three, what would _you_ do?

If I could cut the Gaza strip, I would have done that and then pasted it back as a Moebius strip, thus rendering the whole "you've got to consider the OTHER SIDE as well" rhetoric meaningless.

Heh. Well, then again, we are referring to things that are feasible in the field.

so that's what Windows's "Paste Special" option stands for....

Actually, it puts random parts of your relevant text into a Klein bottle, which it then projects into your screen.