I thought how sad it is that Palestinian parents have to worry about their children being killed by settlers. When Palestinian children are killed, there is no justice as Israeli officials dismiss their murders and the Supreme Court mandates their homelessness even in Jerusalem.

This article is written to help the good people of Israel, and people everywhere, know the truth.

The two state solution is a myth. The gradual genocide of the Palestinians is the reality. To get the local Palestinian people to flee their homes, settlers fire bullets at both adults and children. The techniques to make life miserable and kill even includes stopping traffic or preventing access through a security checkpoint when Palestinians need emergency care. On our way back from visiting Palestinians near Nablus, we drove by a Palestinian village where the Israeli military had blocked the road. We learned roads are often blocked for three days at a time. Can you imagine if someone you knew was having a baby and they were intentionally blocked by the police to prevent the child from being born in a hospital? The strategy to frustrate and end life also includes placing factories near villages to drain the village water supply. The theft of a village's water occurs because the Israeli government grants a deep water well permit for the factory and simultaneously denies Palestinian requests to deepen their wells. The end result is the Palestinians, without water needed for life, are forced out.

In one situation a family in Bureen showed us where settlers burned their property and destroyed their olive trees. The fires started when the settlers from the Yit-Sahar settlement arrived in a bus and proceeded to set fire to the trees. Click here to see the pictures of the settlers arriving on the bus and starting the fire. Some of the olive trees that were burned were over 500 years old. To make sure the fire was not put out by the residents of Bureen, the settlers placed a large truck and other vehicles to block the road. Anyone who went near the vehicles to clear the road or put out the fire, was shot at.

For property that is difficult to burn, the Israeli military will sometimes bring wild pigs and dogs in an area. The pigs eat the plants and ruin small farming efforts. The wild dogs terrorize both children and adults. One man told me how he had to wait in a tree for 6 hours because a pack of wild dogs had chased him. This same man said he saw a man who had died after having chunks of his leg and stomach bitten from wild dogs.

The number of homes demolished by each side since 1967 tells a powerful story. While over 18,147 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel, zero Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians.

We should ask ourselves why the statistics of what is really happening are often unknown. As taxpayers funding the expansion of settlements in Palestine, we have a special responsibility to know what is going on and work for peace.

I was personally surprised by what I saw and learned. For me, the blue and green Israel citizenship cards and rules regarding marrying non-Jews reminded me of Hitler's Nuremberg Laws creating two classes of people and laws for non-Aryan marriages. For Nazi Germany it was Reich citizens and nationals. For Israel it is Jewish citizens and Palestinian nationals.