Heavy-handed

is how ABC News characterized the Israeli murder of 15 Palestinians today, July 23, 2002.

Heavy-handed or just more of the same? During this Intifada the following have taken place:

100 Palestinian activists have been murdered as Israel 'targets and kills' off their political opposition.

550 children have been murdered in Israeli 'self-defense'.

7 journalists have been killed, 35 wounded, the Palestine Broadcast in Ramallah blown up, and most recently, the Palestinian Internet provider raided and shut down for 24 hours as the Israelis protect Americans from the Palestinian perspective.

the infrastructure of Palestinian self-rule destroyed in Ramallah by Israeli 'incursions' this spring making self-rule impossible.

1700 men are held in 'administrative detention', a euphemism for arbitrary arrest and torture without charge or trial..

44 new settlements have been built on Palestinian land since the elections of this year, all of them in violation of international law. There are now 450,000 illegal settlers living on land stolen from the Palestinians..

and the list goes on and on. . . doctors and ambulance drivers attacked and killed while assisting the wounded of whom there are now at least 30,000. Entire villages going without water or electricity. The total demolition of 480 homes and the partial demolition of 5575 more. The massacre at Jenin that was never investigated despite allegations of eyewitnesses from the UN that a massacre had indeed occured. And today men af all ages arrested, beaten, handcuffed and blindfolded as Israelis go about their business which includes the dynamiting of homes..