Living thousands of miles from Israel and learning the situation from radio and the internet, I’ve still formed some opinions.

First is that Hamas is pure evil and MUST BE ELIMINATED.

Second is that the subject of CEASE FIRE is stupid considering the slaughter of innocents.

Third is that Hamas has no intention of giving up hostages, therefore, UNFORTUNATELY, hostages will be k**led as Israel eliminates Hamas.

Forth, President Biden has made it difficult for Israel to win this war, because of politics in the USA.

----Because I have no first-hand knowledge of the situation in the Middle East, my opinions may be completely wrong.

It has to do with the number of phones & phone customers that the phone system can handle. A typical phone exchange can have 10,000 phone numbers - xxx-0000 to xxx-9999. There's a limit on how many phones can actually make a call at any one time. I think that number is 100. So, 100 people are talking, customer 101 won't even get a dial tone until some else ends their call. At some point the telco will add another exchange to keep their customers happy. I imagine newer telco systems can have more customers making calls at the same time. In theory, a 10 digit phone number allows for 9,999,999,999 different phone numbers. Many of those numbers aren't available, though. For example, in the US you can't have a 911 area code or exchange number. Same with 811, 411 and other similar numbers. I won't even go into adding a country code to this mix.