i'm tired of posting about the collapse of israel but its like staring at a train wreck. you just can't take your eyes from it, and who really deserves it more might be a question but i can think of none;

News about offensive Israeli military operations has shifted, for the moment, from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.

A series of Israeli raids and attacks against Jenin and other West Bank cities began last week and is continuing. Although the carnage in Gaza during the past 11 months is larger and still deserves the most attention, the new operations in the West Bank are a further escalation of what already was, during this same period, accelerated violence against Palestinian residents of the West Bank.

Since last October, at least 622 of those residents, including at least 142 children, have been killed, most by the Israeli military and the others by Jewish settlers. Fifteen Israelis died there during the same period.

The West Bank operations are a direct extension of what Israel has done so far in Gaza. Israeli foreign minister Yisrael Katz says that Israel “must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps are required. This is a war for everything and we must win it.”

The immediate ill effect of the newest Israeli operations — civilians suffering — also is the same as in Gaza though so far on a smaller scale. The suffering is not limited to the directly inflicted deaths and injuries. Many residents have been forcibly ejected from their homes. Medical care is impeded by a blockade of hospitals. Streets are bulldozed and other infrastructure needed for daily living is being destroyed.

Official Israeli statements, as is customary with Israeli statements, talk of “terrorists” as the targets, the elimination of whom is ostensibly the purpose of the military operations. But again, as in Gaza, most of the victims — directly when they become casualties, and indirectly from all the other consequences of the destruction and dislocation — are innocent civilians.

Undoubtedly there exist in the West Bank armed militants, deserving of the label “terrorist,” who wish to cause Israel harm. The Israeli military already has killed some of those militants and probably will kill some more. The presence of such individuals in the West Bank is unsurprising, given what in general leads people to turn to such violent ways and what specifically are the conditions to which Israel subjects residents of the West Bank. Over the long term — now more than half a century — the relevant condition is the oppression of those residents under Israeli military occupation of their homeland...........more.......