First let me state that I am Jewish and both my parents are too. On this 60th Anniversary of the establishment of Israel I morn the great harm the establishment of Israel caused the Palestinians. By harm I am talking about the 750,000 Palestinians who were forced to flee there homes and become impoverished refugees between 1948 and 1949. Jewish militias went to Palestinian village after Palestinian village and massacred the Palestinian inhabitants. It did not matter whether the inhabitants had been a threat to the Jewish people. The name of the game was Ethnic cleansing. Once the fighting settled down the Israel leadership issued orders to shoot any Palestinians that dared to try to sneak back onto their land. After years of trying to solve their problem of being stateless and having no home non violently they finally took up arms. They got sick of being shot at for trying to return to their homes and started shooting back. I think it is hypocritical for hard line Zionist to label them terrorist for picking up arms when the state of Israel did not give them any other choice.