How the hell can ya tell which ones aren't terroists? You must have some magic glasses or something.
You could go to
http://www.ict.org.il/ which has a database of all deaths from Sept 2000. Bear in mind they are an orginisation run by senior members of the Israeli government, military and Mossad.
They have worked out something over 800 innocent Palestinian civilians killed by Israel. Given the bias of the site, it's probably far higher.
What if they came back tommorow and the next day and the next? And all around the country for years? And what if it was all over TV in every western country? And what if the suice bombings stopped while all this went on? You see thats the beuty of nonviolent resistance, they can only kill you and beat you with sticks - gandhi was a whoopee genious. There is nothing a western country can do but give in after a little while of that.
Israel is not a "western" country. No Western country defines itself as a state for one religion only, and gives other religons less rights.
Israel defines itself as a Jewish state.
Every single Palestinian refugee could have the right of return to Israel, if they were to convert to Judaism. No western country defines itself that way, or grants citizenship based on religon.
Jerusalem. It all revolves around Jerusalem. Barak gave Arafat everything ... except Jerusalem.
Barak gave almost nothing.
The Palestinians want the right of return, parts of Jerusalem including Temple Mount, all the West Bank and Gaza, including all the Israeli settlements.
Israel wants to keep all the settlements, all of Jerusalem including temple mount, and no right of return.
Barak's concessions were to remove about 20% of the settlers. He offered about 80% of the West Bank, no right of return, parts of Jerusalem not including Temple Mount.
Barak's offer was basically the Israeli position with no compromises at all. Barak later offered a much better deal, but negotiations ended due to the Israeli elections.
It would have been one thing for him to reject that unfair proposal and ask for more negotion - but a whole different thing was to resume wholesale terrorism again. And no I dont think that moron Sharons visit to the holy site was a good enough excise either.
The Palestinians did not resume wholesale terrorism straight after the failure of Camp David.
From ICT, the Israeli counter terrorism site I linked to:
"The first phase of the al-Aqsa conflict began on 27 September 2000, and ended in late December 2000. At that time Palestinian fatalities tapered off sharply, and remained generally lower until the next September. December 21, 2000 has been chosen as the last day of this first phase.
As a first approximation, we can label this phase of the conflict the “real or apparent popular uprising” phase (leaving room for uncertainty as to whether this “uprising” was genuinely spontaneous, or was manufactured by Palestinian leaders),
as most of the fatalities appear to have occurred as the result of Palestinian mass demonstrations or riots, and the Israeli response to them. (A more detailed breakdown of these fatalities by Incident Type remains to be done.) "
