Spoiled brats of Palestine?

jpk, there is clearly quite a lot that you don't know about the situation in Israel and the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.'

The first thing you probably don't know is that there have been several hundred Israelis killed since the beginning of the second intifada, while the number of Palestinians killed numbers in the several thousands (a very large number of them children). The Palestinians in these locations are under military occupation by the government of Israel, and they have no legal rights and no human rights whatever. Their lives are completely subject to the whims of the government of Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces.

The second thing you probably don't know is that as we speak, the Palestinians in these locations (as well as some other locations) are having their homes bulldozed right out from under them so that Israel can take all of the rest of the land that they (the Palestinians) and their ancestors have been living on and farming for more than a thousand years (with the possible exception of Gaza).

I condemn the killing of innocents on both sides. But to call the reactions of some Palestinians to these human rights violations and this outright theft and politicide by the government of Israel, "spoiled brats", is either one of the most profoundly ignorant things I've ever heard, or it is one of the most hateful and bigoted things I've ever heard.

I would be willing to bet you a lot of money, that if the government of Israel was doing to you what it is and has been doing to the Palestinians, you would defend your people and your land. Quite likely with the use of violence.

The only way to end the violence in Israel and the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem is to end the occupation of these locations by the government of Israel and let the Palestinians live their lives in freedom, in their own independent state.