Your burglar analogy is asinine. Are you applying any thought on motivations or objectives at all?

Here in the U.S., if my home was harboring a known gang of cop killers, I might indeed expect the police to break into my home. I would also expect them to shoot anyone who was shooting at them. If such a gang was known to be in a particular neighborhood, a house-to-house search might be in order. Normally, in this country, this would entail knocks on the door and requests for cooperation. After two or three houses turned up with gang members, the approach might become a bit more militant. If it turned out that most of the people in the neighborhood had been feeding, supplying and supporting the cop-killers, the cops' approach might become even less sympathetic.

This is, of course, stretching an analogy. But it's not like the Palestinians are completely innocent in this. There are no doubt a number of Palestinians that wish Arafat and the terrorists would take a long walk off a short pier, but you don't hear much from them, and they aren't in charge. If some of them are being hurt and killed, I'm sorry. There are a heck of a lot of people in Afghanistan who didn't ask for what they got, from either side, either.

If the system in Palestine was working the way it was set up at Oslo, the Palestinian police force should have been clearing out these terrorists and imprisoning them or extraditing them. Israel should never have to cross the borderlines. Arafat would be on his way to being the leader of a state, instead of a thug. No problems.

The Palestinian leadership instead cooperated with, supplied, supported, and directed the terrorists. Arafat was obviously able to switch the attacks on and off at will. Evidence of this has been turned over to the U.S. by Israel.