<The Palestinians do not build settlements in Israel. They do not have a second-class citizenship, they do not deny re-entry to Israelis who leave the country, etc.

No. Here's what they do. They kill unarmed non-military personnel, attack unarmed non-military targets. They kill women, children and old people on purpose.

They get up that morning, strap on a bomb, and say, "I am not going to kill an armed man today. I am not going to where the soldiers are. I am going to kill innocent men, women, children and old people today. I am going to go where they are, where they hang out. I am going to a bus, or a store, or a church, or a park, or a pool hall, or a school. I am going to wait until there are a maximum number of innocent men, women, children, and old people near me, and blow them to tiny fragments of flesh and guts. This is what I have been instructed to do by the people in charge of my nation."

They do this on purpose, man. Beyond all the twisted klein-bottle moral-equivalence crap, this makes a difference. No Israeli soldier sits down at a briefing at the start of his day, and is instructed to go to shops and churches and deliberately machine gun children that day as part of his official mission. Of course, you probably believe they do get such briefings, and there's nothing I can do about that.