>In those 58 years the Palestinians have been so grossly denigrated/emasculated that they have lost all hope of ever living like normal human beings. It is that condition that Israel's 58 years of sanctioned terrorism has reaped.
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No, that is a condition imposed on the Palestinians by their own leadership:

During the years that Israel controlled the Gaza Strip, a consistent effort was made to get the Palestinians into permanent housing. The Palestinians opposed the idea because the frustrated and bitter inhabitants of the camps provided the various terrorist factions with their manpower. Moreover, the Arab states routinely pushed for the adoption of UN resolutions demanding that Israel desist from the removal of Palestinian refugees from camps in Gaza and the West Bank. They preferred to keep the Palestinians as symbols of Israeli "oppression."

Now the camps are in the hands of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but little is being done to improve the lot of the Palestinians living in them. Journalist Netty Gross visited Gaza and asked an official why the camps there hadn't been dismantled. She was told the Palestinian Authority had made a "political decision" not to do anything for the now nearly 500,000 Palestinians living in the camps until the final-status talks with Israel took place (Jerusalem Report, July 6, 1998). To this day, the PA has not used one dime of the billions of dollars in foreign aid it has received to build permanent housing for the refugees.

(From http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf14.html#n)

>That any group spouts 'Israel must be destroyed' or 'Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth' is simply rhetoric - the only weapon left in their arsenal - aimed at both preserving their leadership and getting some rise out of desperate people.

You need to do a little research on some of the hate pieces that daily fill the Arabic news media.

>I've heard football player scream 'we're going to wipe them off the face of the earth' and similar. I've seen wrestlers proclaim the same. Do the other teams refuse to play when those words are uttered?... of course not, because they're just words.

Invalid analogy. Football players generally don't run around with high explosives strapped to themselves.

>This 'they want us annililated so we won't talk to them' is schoolyard stupidity that has cost thousands of lives and will cost thousands more unless someone smartens up.

It's the Palestinian terrorists - and Israeli hard-liners - that maintain that attitude, don't you think? Hardly the official line of the state of Israel.

>The U.S., as the leader of the free world, should be ashamed of itself for supporting Israel in this conflict.

No, it shouldn't. Israel was attacked by members of the quasi-nation of Hezbollah, and they (the Israelis) have every right to defend themselves.