I think Sharon learnt the last time how far massacres will get him.
Instead, Israel inflicts a steady level of civilian casualties on the Palestinians in incidents like this:
Late Tuesday night in Rafah, where 20-month-old Huda Shaluf was killed, IDF forces, including a tank, responded to a large explosion on the road near the Rafah crossing, firing at the suspected bombers and killing one, while the other was arrested.
During the shooting, houses in the Shuka neighborhood about half a kilometer away, where the Shaluf family lives, were hit by four to six shells. The baby was killed in the house. Her father and mother, and four other members of the family, were wounded. An armored force then rolled into the neighborhood, and after it departed, the body of a 25-year-old deaf man was found, apparently crushed by a tank.
or this:
In another incident, on the West Bank, 11-year-old Abed Ismail was killed by an explosion in the center of the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem, near the police station. According to official Palestinian sources, the IDF had held the building for a number of days during Operation Defensive Shield, but left a few days ago. The IDF said it was not aware of the explosion that killed the boy.
The IDF occasionally leaves booby-traps behind in it's operations. Late last year a similar device killed 5 palestinian children near the Khan Younis refugee camp.
The difference is, I haven't seen anyone on this board actually support suicide bombings, but I have seen plenty here support Sharon, calling for the Palestinians to
be "crushed", "killed", "removed" etc.
Any of you Sharon supporters care to condemn the Israeli murders of innocent civilians, or the Israeli policy of colonizing Palestinian lands and ethnically cleansing the inhabitants that is causing all the fighting?
Any of you care to condemn the Israeli system of apartheid, with Israel just deciding to ban any politician or party from standing for election if they - explicitly or implicitly - deny the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state? ie, calling for Israel to become a democracy with equal treatment, value and support for all religions means you can't be a member of the Israeli parliament. It isn't even the courts who get to decide who's banned, it's a committe of the Israeli parliament.
Any of you who say the US must support Israel because it is the only democracy in the area care to comment on that?