[Illbay]

I think I recognize the "harsh reality." But what I also see are people who just want to be left alone, to live where they and their forebears have lived for many generations.

I have a good friend from the Golan Heights--a "Mormon" convert from Islam--who can tell you stories of innocents whose lives were literally wrecked by the Israelis, with no compensation, so that Israeli settlers could move in and take over the land.

If this happened out in Arizona or Montana, we would be livid. But hey, they're only "Arabs," and inferior to the Israelis whom we love SO MUCH that nothing they do can possibly be wrong, and besides, some other Arab somewhere else did something wrong so it's okay.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

[Delphinium]

I think its Israel that wants to be left alone. I don't see them sending their children as bombs to kill innocent Arabs.,or Americans as in 911, or as they are doing now in Iraq to American soldiers. If innocents die because Israel has to defend themselves, its the Arabs fault. Israel has not been over holding the Iraqi people hostage, but they are being blamed for the war, not only by the Arabs, but by people like you. Jews did not load themselves on cattlecars,(as you stated on FR) Hitler did.