I hear about Palestinians killed on a more regular basis than Israelis, and each Palestinian death is given more space in the paper than the Israeli deaths.

The fact is that Palestinians are killed on a more regular basis than Israelis. But I almost never see or hear a name or a life story along with the death statistics. Just X number of Palestinians were killed in a retaliatory action by Israel. Whenever Israelis get killed I often hear the names of the ones killed, their age, what they did for a living, how many family members are left to mourn them. If you hear the same kinds of things on a regular basis about the Palestinians who are killed, please tell me what your news source is.

As I said before, when Palestinians have tried passive resistance in the past, they just got butchered for it, and few people outside of Israel and Palestine ever heard about it. Did you ever hear about those peaceful protests, and the deaths of the people who participated in them?

I don't advocate the killing of Israelis by Palestinians any more than I would advocate the killing of Palestinians by Israelis. But I reiterate the fact that when Israel gives the Palestians hope for a better future, the numbers of violent incidents against Israelis goes down. When the Israeli government increases its oppression of the Palestinians, or reneges on its agreements with them, the amount of violence against Israelis increases. So clearly Sharon's policies (and Netanyahu's policies before him), are not producing the effect he says they're meant to produce. They are producing the opposite effect.