Forum Lurker, this thread demonstrates that the only way a death that happens in the occupied territories to a non-Israeli gets any attention or sympathy, is if it happens to someone who is not a Palestinian. The ratio of deaths of Palestinians as compared to Israelis is staggering.

How do you think the Palestinians can get any kind of balanced reporting or attention to their plight when people like you and I don't ever hear about the five or more Palestinians who are killed for every Israeli who is killed in Israel/Palestine? If they try to use passive resistance, you will simply never hear about it. They did try passive resistance in some peaceful protests, and many of them were killed for it even though they were not armed, or even throwing stones. And on at least one occassion, this happened to Israeli citizens who were of Palestinian ancestry, inside Israel, and not the occupied territories. Did you ever hear about that?

I leave you with the words of these American Jews:

Who Will Speak Out?

Alone Among My Peers at My Yeshiva University High School Reunion

On The Rabbis and the Future of Jewish Life

Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors