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Waffle, the Palestinians have been systematically rounded up, forced into the Gaza Strip and West Bank (economic slums), and murdered. Yes, some of it was out of self-defense on Israel's part, but we've all seen evidence that far more innocent Palestinians are killed that guilty ones. What ever happens to the Israelis that kill innocent Palestinians? What ever happened to the Israeli who bulldozed the American girl to death? There's your proof! It is ethnic cleansing any way you word it or look at it. When people get all sensitive about comparing Israel's actions towards the Palestinians to the Nazis, they are placing more importance on the past than on the present. Yes, the Holocaust was probably the most awful thing to ever happen in the history of this world, but considering that it did happen, why in the hell would so many of the Jews that subsequently went to Israel start participating in ethnic cleansing, even if it is on a smaller scale than the Holocaust? Sure, I loose some credibility when I make the comparison...to people who have already made up their minds any way about Israel/Palestine. The point is: Israel has committed ethnic cleansing after many of its constituents endured the same evils in the Holocaust--like it or not, it's the truth. Giving back a few town home sites doesn't make it any better. Plus, they might rerout their racial wall, but there still IS a wall! That's the point. About Lebanon, that fiasco started because an Israeli tank gunner (and I believe another soldier) was kidnapped in retaliation for some Israeli jerk firing off artillery shells into Lebanon for no reason. Rockets were not  fired from Lebanon until Israel invaded. Sure Israel was pissed about their kidnapped soldiers, but they had ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to invade Lebanon like that and devistate its infrastructure after it had finally became some what of a peaceful place. Just for two non-civilian lives. I mean there's your proof of Israel's racist way. They think two of their boys are more important than an entire country of people. Israel was the real terrorist in Lebanon. If you still think Israel was justified in its invasion of Lebanon, you would have to agree that the U.S. should invade Israel and destroy its infrastructure because an Israeli grunt ran over an American girl with a bulldozer (she was not even a member of the armed forces--just a civilian). I totally agree with you about us being incredulous and alienating others and wondering why nobody helps us in this war. However, we have alienated others to often support Israel's actions and Israel has not even offered to help us with military, supplies, or even a staging ground.