GUEST,C-watch, as a woman, I know that everywhere I go, there are people who want to rape and/or kill me just because I am a woman. I understand what it feels like to be terrorised by people in my every-day environment. I've been lucky in that I haven't lost anyone to terrorism or even war (except my uncle who died fighting the Nazis, but I never met him).

I do fear for my safety. But this fear comes as much from the right-wing nut jobs who are running the show in Israel and the US as anything else.

Gaza would not be experiencing anywhere near this much trouble right now if Israel hadn't bombed most of the PA's civil infrastructure into oblivion. The Palestinians predicted that this would be the outcome of that, and it appears they were right. There is only one reason for destroying the civil infrastructure of the PA, and that is to make independance for the Palestinians an impossibliity.

Amos, why the hell did you start this thread? I thought you were smarter and a lot less racist than that.