"Jim Carroll, is Lox right?"
No he isn't - I think that they are an inevitable consequence of State military aggression, expansionism, massacres, blockades, inhuman and degrading treatment of civilians, chemical attacks on hospitals and schools, deliberate destruction of homes in order to colonise, the forced eviction of entire cultural groups.... all of which you either support, claim are not happening or ignore completely.
The well armed and trained Israelis are aggressively vicious towards its impoverished, virtually undefended Palestinian neighbours - the Palestinian leadership would be negligent in its duty if it didn't show some resistance - it is the Israelis who are the open and vicious aggressor here - and it has been condemned world-wide because of it.
I give no support to any group of religious fanatics Jewish, Muslim, Christian... whatever, I leave that to you, but, as you rightly say, people have a right to defend themselves.
You - on the other hand have given your vigorous and dishonest support to a country whose former foreign minister has been condemned for war crimes (a fact you have yet to address)
I assume we are finished with the blockade aimed directly at the everyday life of civilians, as proved by the list of banned goods, as we are with the proven military targetting of civilians - which you continue to defend by denying the documented evidence?
Jim Carroll