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Yes, the Palestinian militants often hang out in refugee camps. I think even jaguar would admit that.
As far as Israel's atrocities, I think that they should be noted right alongside with the Palestinian militants'. I'm definitely not a big fan of Sharon, but I'm afraid of what Netanyahu will do if he gets re-elected.
The problem with the Palestinian militants, and this is an irrefutable <b>fact</b>, is that they <b>target civilians</b>. They revel in the death of innocent people who were just trying to have some good eatin' at Sbarro, just trying to have a good time at a Tel Aviv disco, just trying to go home. Many of these people have <b>no problem</b> with the Palestinians, but they're getting slaughtered anyway. Last year, a suicide bomber, dressed as an observant Jew, went to a French language <b>school</b> and blew himself up. A <b>school</b>.
How is Israel supposed to respond? "Oh, okay. Thanks for killing our civilians. Please don't do it again."
They can't exactly just go "Okay, well you got 21 of us, so we're gonna round up 21 innocent Palestinians of the same ages of the victims and blow them up." That would be awful and wrong. But it would also be the equivalent of what Palestinian militants are doing to Israel.
jag - I suggest you do some reading on the 1929 Hebron massacre before you start bitching about how Israel started it. Or maybe take a gander at the story of Exodus. Arab-Jewish tensions go back quite a ways.
As for your example of Vietnam - millions of people repressed and fighting a war with little supplies - okay. How about one Mohandas Gandhi?
As I have said before, <b>the Palestinians have the most to gain</b>. They have to bring people around to their side. You get more flies with sugar than you do with water...
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