irishenglish, if the intent of the government of Israel is to continue the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians until they are all removed from occupied Palestine, and if the US continues to support Israel in this endeavor financially and with its UN vetoes, the only way to bring peace to that region is for the people in the US and Israel to make them stop.

The problem is that many people don't accept the idea that Israel is, in fact, conducting ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. They are, and they are also doing it to the non-Jewish Arab-Israelis, and there is more than ample proof of this. But in order to help people see clearly what is being done in their names and with their money, it is necessary to show what has been done in the past, along with what is being done in the present.

I will use your analogy of apartheid in South Africa. Do you think it would have been possible to end apartheid in South Africa if nobody in Western countries or in South Africa itself was allowed to talk about it and to discuss why it was wrong? Of course it wouldn't. It was because of campaigns much like those that are being conducted on behalf of the Palestinians today that South Africa was pressured into ending its apartheid. If people had tried to silence discussion about South African apartheid the way people (you included, aparently) are doing on the subject of apartheid in occupied Palestine, South Africa would still have apartheid today.

You don't help to correct these kinds of problems by telling people not to talk about them. That will only ensure that they continue indefinitely.