Reply to James: Your assertions about hundreds still missing in Jenin is hogwash. The PA reported 56 dead in Jenin whose names they had. They submitted no long list of missing persons, presumed dead. There was so much press about Jenin claiming war crimes and massacres while the incursion was happening, that the authors couldn't give up on the story even after the evidence came out to the contrary.

You can't claim a "massacre" when 56 mostly armed gunmen were killed along with 32 IDF members. Or, you can if you are stupid.

I notice you did not mention either the booby-trapped buildings left for the advancing IDF which resulted in destroyed buildings and accounted for some of the damage-including explosions with Palestinian residents in the upper levels---nor did you mention the 12 yr.old suicide bomber sent in to kill, I believe, 13 IDF.

Since Jenin was home to many who had attacked Israel and were planning further attacks, what would you have Israel do?

Also: If the Palestinians are only responding to the "brutal occupation" how do you explain the attacks on Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973? Why didn't the Palestinians struggle for statehood between '48 and '67 when Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied Gaza?
When did the Palestinians stop wanting to kill the Jews and start wanting a free and independent state? Can you name that date?