I protest.

A seriously different perspective.

Check out Electronic Intifada, a Palestinian-oriented news site. I ran across it through a link to the article "'I was a human shield': An Israeli visits ISM in Rafah," a good and pretty gripping view of what it's like to be in front of the guns, rather than behind them. The rest of the site has both good and bad reporting; use the appropriate grains of salt when reading it. At worst, though, it's a good way to see how the Palestinian side sees things.

The Palestinians are in an impossible situation, caught between their manipulation by the rest of the Arab world and the aggression of the Israeli state. Regardless of your view of the rightness or wrongness of the conflict, the fact remains that people are suffering terribly and few seem to care. And before anyone accuses me of "supporting terrorism," I'm not. As far as I can tell, the acts of terrorists have little, if anything, to do with the suffering in places like Rafah. Like most everywhere else, these people are just trying to live.

This conflict is a classic example of the problem with the philosophy of "an eye for an eye." Someone must decide when to stop, else everyone will be blind.