Forget the politics, whose right or wrong, etc. -- just consider the situation of a mob coming at you throwing large stones (and molotov cocktails -- and also firing weapons occasionally). What would you do, hold your fire? Use rubber bullets? What I object to is the slanted reporting of the left-wingers who continually speak about "stone throwing youths" as if these were children throwing little pebbles. But on the political side -- yes, there too the Israeli's are showing restraint. They should never have allowed any Arabs to remain inside their borders. The Palestinians have a country, it's called Jordan. And the problem in Jordan is that they have a royal family who is not Palestinian, but Saudi. Everyone else is Palestinian. Israel is a incredibly tiny piece of land, very hard to defend militarily, and impossible without the westbank. I notice that those people who whine about the Israeli's taking Arab land don't follow their own beliefs and pack up and go back to Europe and give my ancestors land back to us. Fair is fair, right? Put your money where your mouth is, Choate. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS Systems Librarian Arrowhead Library System Virginia, MN (218) 741-3840 hseaver@arrowhead.lib.mn.us http://harmon.arrowhead.lib.mn.us