jackslucid said yesterday

The BBC article also mentions that it has been six weeks since the last suicide bomb, it doesn't mention how many Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in that time, most of them in their homes.

Stupid, the last suicide bomber that murdered Israeli civilians was 6 weeks ago. But Israel in this 6 week period has caught 20 suicide bombers who were prevented from murderering Israeli children. Israel also captured a car, that Palestinian terrorists placed a 1350 pound car bomb in. It was the largest Car bomb anyone had ever seen. These 2 Palestinian homicide bombers were going blow up a shopping mall with the bomb and murder hundreds of Israeli woman and children. You only hear about the Palestinian terrorist acts that get through. You've not heard about the 90 percent of Palestinian terrorist attacks there were stopped by Israel. If all these Palestinian terrorist acts would have gotten through, the Jews would have been slaughtered worse then Iraq butchering the Kurds.

Whose the instigators of terror.
The "cycle" in practice works like this: Palestinian terrorists conduct random, murderous attacks targeting Israeli civilians. Palestinian terrorists attack Israeli woman and children in buses, shopping malls, cafe's, restaurants, disco's, sbarro's pizzeria's, Bar Mitzvah's, shoe stores and schools. The Israeli military pursues strikes against military or terrorist targets in response, attempting to disable terrorist networks that Arafat won't stop himself, since he is no different from them.

In the one case, Palestinian terrorists set out to murder as many Israeli civilians as possible. Israel responds to these terrorists acts, by targeting Palestinian terrorists who sponsor these murderous acts against Israeli civilians. The Palestinians then hide these terrorists in civilian areas, wanting Israel to fire back, so civilians are killed, so this looks good on TV.

The attempt to draw a moral equivalence between the Palestinians' deliberate attempts to kill innocents and inspire terror and Israel's military responses to these attacks is not far different from describing the U.S. airstrikes on Afghanistan as "perpetuating the cycle of violence between al Qaeda and the United States." There is no equivalence between terrorist attacks designed to maximize the deaths of innocents and military strikes designed to limit the ability of terrorists to carry out future strikes.

Terrorism is the DELIBERATE targeting of innocent civilians and noncombatants for political or religious purposes.
Pretty simple!

The Palestinians are terrorists because they deliberately target innocent Israeli men, women and children going about their daily lifes.

The Israelis do not deliberately target Palestinian civilians/non combatants. Israelis Defence Forces only target Palestinian terrorists who are engaged in the execution and commissioning of terrorist acts. The IDF goes to amazing lengths to reduce Palestinian "collateral damage" but this is often hampered by the terrorists usage of civilian human shields.

The poverty of such comparisons was made painfully clear last week by a statement from Ahmed Abdel Rahman, secretary of the Palestinian cabinet, who blamed a recent Israeli raid on a Palestinian bomb factory in Nablus for the current spate of attacks. If one side is making the bombs destined to be strapped to suicidal terrorists to massacre Israeli civilians) and the other side conducting raids to prevent their manufacture, there is little room to question who is in the right. Is it any wonder, why Palestinians find moral equivalence, between Palestinian terrorists who blow up Sbarros pizzeria's and discos filled with teenagers and Israeli commandos, who preemptively kill terrorist ringleaders, before they send their suicide bombers into Israel on a mission to kill Jewish civilians.