<< AmusedOne,
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Czar, that's what happens when you have a terrorist group so tightly interweaved with a civilian population. There is NO way to differentiate the terrorists from the civilians. The civilian population has only themselves to blame for supporting, both morally and physically, the terrorists among them.
The Palestinians have no one but themselves, and the Arab nations that use them as lackeys to blame for this. They've waged repeated wars against a country, lost, and now whine when that country seeks to defend itself against cowardly terrorist attacks.
Again, the question here is THIS:
If the Palestinians stopped all terrorist attacks, would Israel still be attcking them? NO
If the Israelis stopped all retaliation, would the Palestinians still commit terrorist attacks against innocent Israeli citizens? YES
These questions, and their obvious answers are all one needs to know to realize that the Palestinians are at fault here.