For the past 14 months, hundreds of Palestinians fell martyrs and thousands wounded in their great uprising for freedom and independence as they live under the suppression of the Israeli occupier which resorts to unjustified violence, subjugation and tyranny as well as the explicit terrorism of assassination.

Under such circumstances, the occupation forces and the extremist Israeli leadership left no way out for the Palestinians but to continue struggling with stones to confront an army using the most advanced weapons or sacrificing themselves to inflict a big harm on the state of Israel.

Civilians should be out of the dramatic effects of this dispute. Yet Israel always kills civilian Palestinians and thus it justifies the Palestinian explosions, similar to that which recently hit Israel.

These events should stop the Israeli leadership, to reread them wisely instead of resorting to empty threats of violent retaliation. If it does so, it will realize that its attitude, full of arrogance to subjugate another people, is the main reason behind all the catastrophes in the region.

-- Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt