text: eighteen palestinians are killed in a barrage of israeli tank fire in gaza? at least 18 palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded by israeli tank fire in town of beit hanoun,  and women and children were among the dead  while muslims are accused by being "terrorists", this gets ignored, why?  share you honest neutral opinion , please i am not of the jewish faith, i do not live in israel, i am not palestinian i do not live in palestine and i am not an arab.  if you look at my questions you will see that there are some very interesting answers - some rather pompous and some misinterpreting my question and details entirely.  so many people are judgemental is it any wonder that the grave problems between the israeli jews and the palestinians have made no progress whatsoever?  the palistinians know of no other way to fight for their existance against the most technically superior and heavily armed force in the middle east - israel.    what other action can they resort to now that will enable them to live freely and justly in the country they reside in other than sacrificing themselves as human bombs?    it is tragic that in the 21st century the political men in the world are incapable of having the courage to produce a solution that will enable palistinians and israelis to 'integrate' justly and with compassion.    i know for a fact that the attitude of the israeli police and border guards to palistinians is nothing short of arrogant - even to a british subject on vacation. palistinians gueue from 2.00 am to cross checkpoints to get to work by 9.00 am - what kind of treatment is that and what kind of behaviour is that?   the palistinians organised what was acknowledged as a democratic election - the only problem was that the democratically elected party wasn't the party which other prople/countries wanted.    the big mistake the democratically elected hamas government made was not to renounce 'terrorism'.  what it should have done was to form their own 'defence force' in uniform under the authority of the government, made up of those who are trying to preserve the human rights of their fellow men, women and children - so blatently abused by israel - evidenced by un resolutions which are ignored by israel.  are we expected to forget the virtual wipe-out of lebanon by israel just weeks ago - that seems to have disappeared from the media - and one has to ask why - although i suspect we all know that money talks in politics.  my emotions are mixed - i really would like to think that all the inhabitants of the land called israel and palestine could live together side by side in peace.    the israelis may have suffered deaths at the hands of the palistinian suicide bombers, but the palistinians have also suffered death by israeli military forces in addition to the  loss of their livelihoods and their farmland.  at least the israelis can go about their daily lives and employment - something denied to the palistinians by the israelis.