The tiresome and widespread use of "innocent" is no more than a tendentious appeal to emotions. The facts of this conflict are terrible enough without our having to resort to that. If you mentally remove the word from the phrase every time you see it, you'll see that the statement in question is just as powerful, if not more so. Have a nice day, John.

I've read about the land grab in the West Bank, the persecution of the Bedouins. They've been persecuted before, driven out of their villages in the Negev. What's happening in the West Bank is extremely dangerous as well as being highly immoral.