I'm glad more of this community is starting to empathize with the Isrealis . Try putting yourself in their shoes . Remember the hurt, the insult, the anger you felt in September ? Unfortunately I think many americans have allready forgotten. The Isrealis can't escape it, they are reliving it on an almost daily basis . The Isreali leaders have a duty to their electors who are cyring make it stop . They are very frustrated. The PLO won't negociate, the PLO won't stop sending bombers . Yet Isreal can't move an armored vehicle without the international community breathing down their neck . The palastinians need to let go of the past and old animosities . When they do this then they can begin repairing the present . At the rate they are going with this intifada Isreal will soon be garnering more world sympathy than their stone throwing neighbors .