Originally Posted by [db]

You would have to start with creating a Palestine. Right now these millions of people live under violent military occupation with no rights.

What Israel is doing is not "answering violence with violence". Clearly this is not a response to the recent increase in those home made rocket attacks. That is just what they tell stupid americans, brits, and canadians so we will keep sending tanks and missiles.

The easiest way to figure this out is that it is what the Bush administration is claiming. But I guess, if some people are still not used to this shorthand (Bush admin statement = opposite of truth), you could do a little reading and combine it with common sense. Israel started planning this psychotic assault on women and children over six months ago. Haaretz.

What they are doing is simply a continuation of the collective punishment the state of Israel has been inflicting on the Palestinians for decades with our support and encouragement. Collective punishment being of course, a war crime.

It is tragic to see this unfolding.