The Col:

> not acknowledge even once in your post the many years of terrorism towards Israel by the PLO

I am well aware of the PLO, suicide bombings, home-made rockets, etc.

What I am getting at is the completely lopsided approach that western powers take in the whole issue.

As an example, today in the radio (CBC) they were talking about how the Canadian government instigated Lockheed-Martin to provide Israel with 30 state of the art F15 fighters. The F15 is the most sophisticated fighter jet in history. Each fighter comes at a price of about US $150 million and an estimated $300 million in maintenance costs over the lifetime of the plane. These fighter jets are expected to be delivered to Israel within the next 2 years.

Contrast this with the fact that since March of 2006 the Canadian government suspended all aid to Palestinians, not that they were giving much to begin with.

Such a one-sided approach only aggravates the situation. Western governments want Palestinians to abandon all territorial claims and to be content with whatever scraps of desert Israel feels Palestinians deserve. Israel has undergone a population explosion since the end of the Cold War. Jews have emigrated from Russia and other countries by the thousands and that means that to house them it is necessary to displace Palestinians. Western countries have given Israel carte blanche to do whatever they want and rather than pressuring Israel to change its stance, they are giving Israel more weapons to counteract the rising threat from Iran.

The current approach is obviously not working. Any aid given to israel should be matched as aid given to Palestinians. As long as there is injustice there, things will not get better and the current approach to foreign aid is failing.