"Little Hawk--you and all of you who insist on comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and the Final Solution thereby undercut any credibility the rest of your argument might have. It is odious and trivializes Nazism. Please show me the trains going to the gas chambers and concentration camps; show me the crescents on the garments of muslims or tattoos on their arms. Show me gangs of Jews rampaging through the streets of Tel Aviv destroying Arab homes and businesses, and just beating them up for the fun of it. Get real!"

I'm not trying to compare Israel to anywhere. It does strike me, though, that if the cameras & the media aren't there to photograph & record & report, you don't actually know what's happening, do you?

Does that sound like Nazi Germany to you? Rwanda? And various other places throughout history. I reckon if this were another, older, less well reported age, there would be concentration camps & gas chambers out there. Some of them would be run by Jews, some of them by Arabs. It's nothing to do with Jews & Arabs, any more than the notion of wholesale slaughter & genocide was a Nazi invention. The Nazis just mechanized the process to a much greater degree than anyone who had gone before.

This is basic human nature. Not yours, not mine, but OURS. It's been part of our psyche since before we invented "civilization" (hahahahahaha... :( ).

Israel would cheerfully be running gas chambers & concentration camps if they thought they could get away with it. So would the Arabs, of every stripe. Look at what happened in the former Yugoslavia. They're still finding the mass graves, & that was in the "Old World", Europe!

They can't, so in the meanwhile both sides do what they can. If Israel hadn't invaded Lebanon over a couple of abducted soldiers, the vast majority of a couple of thousand dead wouldn't be dead, never mind all the displacement, destruction & attendant human misery.

You know what the people (Jewish, Arab, whoever) want? They want to be left alone to live their lives in peace.

It's the fanatics who keep killing everyone.