[DanaC]

Whichever way you look at it the Israelis have killed more Palestinian civilians than they have lost on their own side. I dont deny that every single one of those Israeli deaths is a tragic loss. Nor do I deny that the Israeli people are living day after day with an unremitting fear of suicide attacks. ....The suffering of the Palestinian people however, is so extreme as to make most of the world look on in horror at what is being done.

The media reportage in the West is routinely accused by Israel of being biased against them yet outside of America and Israel most people consider that the media is unfairly levelling the situation , suggesting it is a 50- 50 line of fault when in reality the Israeli state is conducting a campaign of terror and pacification of a conquered people.

You only have to watch a little footage of Israeli soldiers as they pace up and down exuding menace to quell the growing storm to see this is a force policing a different people to their own.

You only have to read the reports coming in from Human Rights watch, amnesty international and other NGO's to see that the Palestinians are being grievously provoked. Whatis the Palestinian child to think when they have seen their brothers dragged from their beds at night? What about the children who were present when one of their schoolmates was shot , quite coldly by an Israeli sniper? Or the Child who was targetted in his yard?
Qossay Abu 'Aisha, 12, was playing in his yard in the Askar neighbourhood of Nablus. The yard is surrounded by a two-metre high tin fence. Israeli soldiers, part of the force that has reoccupied the city, opened fire, punctured the fence and hit him with two bullets, killing him instantly

What about the Palestinians whose villages are cut off from their workplaces by road blocks? Whose wives are unable to travel in an ambulance to the hostpital during birth complications because Ambulances have been refused access to their area?

Radar screaming about Israel's right to kick the shit out of the Palestinians if they want on account of the Militants using them as shields does not in anyway lessen my view that the Palestinian people are a conquered race who are being humiliated and tormented daily by their conqueror. So..what are they to do about it? They tried to beg help of the world and we turned our backs on them. They cannot fight the army soldier for soldier because that requires an army, and an army requires resources, funding, equipment, suplies....How can a people whose lands have been so segmented from one another that they cannot travel from one part of Palestine to another without passing Israeli roadlocks possibly gather a conventional army to rival their conqueror's?

They cannot even effect basic law and order because their security forces and goverment infrastructure has been decimated

The Israelis admit they do not check houses before they bulldoze them . There are cases of houses coming down with people still in them. One woman ....a pregnant woman stood in front of the bulldozers. She thought the fact she was pregnant would afford her a measure of protection. How wrong she was. How wrong she was to think the Israeli army would even view her as as human life worth saving. Palestinian lives are worth less than Israelis. Israeli soldiers would rather kill a dozen palestinian civilians if there is even a hint that ther may be danger ahead to their troops. There is no sense whatsoever in the reports coming out of Janin and other hotspots that the Israeli army make any attempt to safeguard the lives of palestinian civilians , certainly not women and children.