What a load of horseapples. The fantasy that the poor oppressed Palestinians are the victims of the U.S. and Israel doesn't stand up to even the most cursory examination.

Think about it for a while.

Out of the millions of square miles in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Oman, UAE, Syria, and Lebanon, would it not be possible to carve a small chunk the size of the 8,000 square mile State of Israel and use it to make a Palestinian state? Yet this has not been done. Nor are Palestinians permitted to easily settle in other Arab nations and assimilate, which after almost three generations would have been simple.

Most Arab governments want Israel dead. No compromise, no arguments. The Palestinians are their cannon fodder to accompish this, with young Palestinians blowing themselves up on behalf of fat-assed oil sheiks who would just as soon not get their political fingernails dirty. Maybe every so often they'll send a boatload of weapons or some advisors.

To get what they want, the Palestinians have to do one simple thing: stop trying to destroy Israel and the Jews. It's that easy. Who do you think is putting Palestinians up to perform acts of terror DESIGNED to inflame Israel? Palestinians kill Israeli children, and Israeli military kill Palestinians, and the sheiks laugh their asses off, safe in their palaces.

You're being had. The Palestinians are being had. I would bet that most Palestinian acts of terrorism have been set up and financed by the other Arab nations.

Did it ever occur to you what would happen if suddenly the Palestinians started using the tactics of Martin Luther King or other non-violent protestors? What if they just started peaceful marches and protests, and the acts of terror ended? Suddenly the Israelis would lose their mantle of righteousness, gained from the civilian blood shed by terrorists. Could Israelis gun down peaceful marchers? If they did, they would lose any international sympathy they might have had in the first place. Such tactics would work for the Palestinians, and gain them the credibility they need, and maybe even the home they have been hoping for.

Yet it doesn't happen. Why? Because the objective of those pulling the Hamas strings is NOT getting rights, a state, or a peaceful coexistence with the Jews for the Palestinians. The objective is using the Palestinians as cannon fodder to kill Israel. Period.

Get a clue.