[DanaC]

Whilst we're at it then. Why is it that the death of Israeli citizens at the hands of people who are so outgunned and hemmed in they have to resort to their own bodies as delivery systems, considered a crime of staggering proportion, yet the Palestinian civilians are simply collateral damage or an unfortunate incident.?

Does nobody find it worrying that the state of Israel is given tacit ( and in the case of America overt) permission to engage in political murder within the borders of a country it is occupying ? I use occupying because that is what it is. Thats what it has been termed by the international community. That is it's legal status.

The current Interfada(?) started in direct response to the shooting of a Palestinian child who died in the arms of his Father. That was a crime. The deaths of Israeli toddlers in settlements is also a crime. The difference is that one is politically motivated murder and the other is state sponsored murder. You only have to take a look at the death toll on either side to see which one is truly terrifying.

And.....I do not understand, why the very fact that these people have to resort to such.....personally costly methods to drive home their point, leads to them being seen as somehow less credible, almost inhuman....Less credible? They have nothing left to throw at their enemy but their own bones strapped with explosives. If the French resistance had engaged in suicide bombing against their occupiers I wonder how we would write that tale now?