Did the Palestinians come to Israel from another continent, ethnically cleanse 80% of the Israeli population and take their land, houses, businesses, and personal property for their own? And then eighteen years later did they violently take the rest of the Israelis' land in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, ethnically cleanse much of that land, forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis at gunpoint to cross a river on foot, declare their land and property abandoned, and virtually immediately start a process of illegal land confiscation and colonization in order to establish facts on the ground that would obviate return of the land? Have the Palestinians systematically established facts on the ground in order to make their annexation of the land inevitable, and create a "matrix of control" designed to gradually paralyze the movement and growth of the Palestinian population?

Are the Israelis living under a brutal, oppressive occupation by the Palestinians in which they are systematically denied the fundamental rights guaranteed to every human being in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and in which the Palestinians utterly ignore the Israelis' rights and their obligations as the occupying power under Fourth Geneva Convention, despite the fact that the Palestinians are signatories to all three?

Have the Palestinians illegally confiscated Israeli land in order to build colonies into which they move their citizens in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention with the intention of eventually annexing whatever is left of Israeli land to Palestine?

Do the Palestinian occupation authorities force Israelis to take poorly paved side roads and wait for hours at checkpoints so that it can take hours to travel only a few kilometres while Palestinians travel on modern, wide, well-paved Palestinian-only highways built on confiscated Israeli land?

Do Palestinian occupation forces maliciously hold Israeli ambulances at checkpoints for hours until the patients are dead or near death? How many Israeli women in difficult labour have been maliciously forced to wait at checkpoints until they gave birth at the checkpoint, and how many of those women and babies have died as a result? (Check out the Isreali organization Machsom Watch for information about checkpoints).

Are the Palestinians demolishing Israelis' homes on a regular basis both as collective punishment and as a way to squeeze Israelis into smaller and smaller spaces while they take the land around them?

Are Palestinians holding thousands of Israelis, including hundreds of children, in indefinite detention with no charges against them, and no hope of release? Do Palestinians regularly torture Israelis, including Israeli children whom they have taken into detention often for nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or, in the case of children, having the wrong father or brother, or perhaps being near a group of children accused of throwing stones at Palestinian tanks? (See also B'tselem.)

Have Palestinians ever imprisoned 1.5 million Israelis in the 21st century equivalent of the Warsaw ghetto, bombed the electricity-production and distribution facilities (which effectively deprives the people of water, since electricity is needed to pump water), and starving them by blockading shipments of essentials such as food and fuel as well as medicine and medical supplies so that the malnutrition rate among Israeli children and the death rate from treatable injuries and diseases skyrocket? Are Palestinians intentionally starving hundreds of thousands of Israeli children?

And do the Palestinians subject this Israeli population imprisoned in an area about the size of San Francisco to a relentless bombing campaign from which they have nowhere to escape because they cannot get out? And do their bombing targets include a university, a women's university dormitory, at least one kindergarten, numerous synagogues, hospitals, the entire civil infrastructure, and thousands of homes and businesses? And do the number killed in these bombings include mostly civil servants - i.e. ordinary government employees? And with these bombings are they currently killing an estimated 10-15% children?

Are Palestinians denying Israelis the right to self determination? Are they arresting tens of elected Israeli officials because they belong to the wrong party? Do they collectively punish the Israelis for not electing the people the Palestinians want them to elect? Are they squeezing Israelis into smaller and smaller increasingly isolated enclaves by building roads, colonies, and erecting a huge barrier built on illegally confiscated Israeli land - a wall that snakes and meanders deep into Israeli territory, dividing town from town, neighborhood from neighborhood, and blocking farmers' access to their fields?

Do Palestinians forbid Israeli fishermen from fishing waters they have every right to fish in, confining them to waters that yield little or nothing, and regularly harass them, firing on them, and often destroying the boats with which they make their living with no due process, and for no apparent reason other than to make it difficult for them to survive?
Do Palestinians prevent Israeli farmers from transporting their produce until it rots and is unsaleable?

Have Palestinians refused to allow Israeli Fulbright scholarship winners to leave Israel for their education despite the fact that they have valid visas to the U.S., thus stunting their education?

And speaking of education, do Palestinian occupation forces deny Israeli school children the basic human right to an education by regularly blocking their way  to their schools? And do they also destroy schools so that Israeli children have no school to go to?>

Violent Palestinian school children kicking an Isaeli occupation when they are blocked from reaching their school.

Palestinian school kids breaking through an Israeli occupation checkpoint to go to their school. Those children should be condemned for forcing that poor occupation soldier to point his rifle at them.

Palestinian school children protest the Israeli bombing of their school in Gaza, September, 2005.

For further information about human rights abuses by Israel, including comparative numbers of civilians and numbers of children killed by each side (remember when you read this that it is Palestinians who target children while Israel does its absolute utmost to avoid killing any civilians) check out the Israeli human rights organization, B'tselem".

As yourself who has the power here, and that will tell you who is not the victim.

Please condemn these school kids for forcing these poor innocent Israeli soldiers to point their weapons at them. After all, they are guilty of trying to go to school, so what else could they do?

Those violent Palestinian kids! They are taught to hate, you know.

Look what those terrorist Palestinian kids have forced this poor Israeli soldier to become! Why don't they just leave the poor guy alone, forget about school, and go home?

And now you can see how terroristic Palestinian adults teach hatred and violence to Palestinian kids".

Now THAT'S better! They decide not to disturb the poor Israeli soldier by making him shoot them, and take their lessons sitting in the street. Good little Palestinians, gooooooooood.