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

DS - "Until Palestine puts a stop to the war crimes they publicly, and privately, commit, yes."

Human shields, having civilians knock on doors in case they shoot through them is considered a war crime by every civilized nation. Destroying civilian property for the sake of depriving civilians of shelter is considered a war crime by civilized peoples. Emphasis - civilized.

Now, who is chasing down the IDF folks who are doing this? Is there any outrage in your camp over these things? Or are these guys getting battle ribbons, "Valor", for these heroic acts?

DS - "Well, Palestine is a global undesirable. I don’t think I would like the idea of the Hamas setting up camp in my neighborhood either."

Nice. All Italians are bad guys because the Mafia is predominately Italian. "Palestine is a global undesireable". But not the IDF? Not human shields, not destroying civilian property? Back to "civilized".

DS - "What ethnic cleansing are you speaking of? Please specify."

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle." -- Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan (Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 4/13/83, NYTimes 4/14/83)

"... we have no solution, that you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wants to can leave -- and we will see where this process leads? In five years we may have 200,000 less people -- and that is a matter of enorous importance." -- Moshe Dayan encouraging the transfer of Gaza strip refugees to Jordan quoted in Nur Masalha's A Land Without A People, 1997 p.92).

That ethnic cleansing. Almost like the Holocaust, isn't it. Moshe Dayan can't be dismissed as a powerless "extremist", can he?

Your guys stink. So do "my guys", but we know that. And, they aren't into ethnic cleansing. With anyone justifying it.

They did want to get rid of Israel. After all, it was their place until the UN took it away.

I can understand the mentality of the folks who took out the Native Americans. Sign treaties, move in on 'em. If they complain, slaughter 'em. Frankly, if I had to choose between Custer and Chief Joseph, I'd choose Chief Joseph. I wouldn't be in bed with Custer.

The sad thing is what Israeli propaganda has done to the mentalities of nice, decent folks, both there and here.

Not nice. But, maybe it's "war".

Arf