"War" seems to excuse every Israeli action. And, the Palestinians are "terrorists".

What I have trouble understanding is why in your reasoning "war" doesn't justify the Palestinian actions, too? Why are they "terrorist", and the Israelis at "war"?

Wouldn't seem to make sense. Not all Palestinians are "soldiers", no every man, woman and child of them who are displaced, shot at, terrorized.

It's now the Israelis who are trying to drive out the Palestinians. At least since 1967. Look at the map. (At one time the Arabs would have loved to get rid of the Jews. They've accepted the reality now.)

"In our country there is room only for the Jews. We shall say to the Arabs: Get out! If they don't agree, if they resist, we shall drive them out by force."
--Professor Ben-Zion Dinur Israel's First Minister of Education, 1954 from History of the Haganah

Why is Israeli ethnic cleansing OK, and it's not OK anywhere in the rest of the world? Wasn't OK in Bosnia, for instance, but is in the Middle East, is for the Israelis to do.

Or, does "war" cover that? The Israelis get to be at "war", the Israeli state gets to sponsor terrorism, practice ethnic cleansing, and no one else does? It's "war", but somehow it's a "war" where if anyone strikes back it's not fair, it's "terrorism".

Just curious. Wouldn't seem to make sense. But then, that may be "war", too.

Arf