"And if it weren't for the PLO and Hamas those numbers would be close to zero."
You mean if they had all stepped aside and let the Israelis goose-step all over the middle east without offering resistance - "Come out with your hands up and you will not be harmed" - just like the the occupants of Sabra Shatila weren't harmed.
It's all happened before Boo Boo.
The State of Israel came into being to the sound of hand grenades being thrown into occupied houses in order to clear the way for israel's Brave New World.
The Palestinian opposition to Israel expansionism is no different in any way to the fight put up by the Jewish people against British colonialism, only this time it is the Israelis who are the militaristic thugs.   
Jim Carroll