Between an army that kills bystanders while firing missiles at terrorist leaders or knocks down empty houses, and a group that plans and carries out the deliberate and carefully-targeted destruction of buses, cafes, malls, and other places packed with civilians, usually by wrapping a nail-filled bomb around some kid, somehow I have no trouble at all deciding which is the lesser of two evils. It is a source of continuous amazement to me these methods are still considered equivalent by some people.

That being said, I totally agree that had the Palestinians used Ghandi's approach, there would probably be a Palestinian state by now. But then, defusing this issue is the last thing the radical Arabic world wants to see.