Let's keep a sense of proportion.
This is a war between two groups - those that believe in a solution that allows to communities to develop each with its own state, its own laws and moral systems against those that each believe in a single state solution (with lip-service acknowledgement of the other communities rights). The Israeli right-wing which currently includes the Kadima and Labour parties are currently winning the war within Israel to de-legitimize the idea of an independent Palestinian State. Hamas a doing exactly the same to delegitimize the idea of an independent Israeli State.
We (Palestinians and Israelies) kill one another just as a means of conducting our own internal battles over the wider issue of a One or Two State solution.
What do a dozen or so lives here or there matter in such a discussion particularly if they are lives of the 'enemy'?

J. Sivan, Haifa, Israel

"Another blow to the fragile peace process came in the form of 66 new residences being built in a Jewish settler community in occupied east Jerusalem."
East Jerusalem is not "occupied" (whatever that means - there is no official definition of the term). "Occupied" implies is belongs unequivocally to someone else, which is not true, as a border was never drawn between Israel and the Palestinians. The 1949 Armistice Lines are not borders, but cease-fire lines. Almost no one recognizes these Lines as borders, except perhaps a few Latin American countries. The UK, USA, Canada, EU, Australia, etc., definitely do not recognize it as they refuse to locate their embassies in (West) Jerusalem, i.e., on the Israeli side of the Lines. The area is "disputed", not "occupied".

me, Jerusalem, Israel

Maybe it's time for the west to let this peace issue go. Stop ALL aid until the Pali's sue for unconditional peace. Also it seems the Arab block countries want less to do with them than the west, let them support the terrorists with THEIR money. Tell hamas to put down their arms or be responsible for their actions.

Steve, San Jose, CA

Don't worry...the "Israel can do no wrong" crowd will find a way to defend their actions...remember the:

"holocaust" ? ?

jayil, uk, london

If we dont stand up against islamofaszism now, soon London will look like Gaza...ehh Sorry am I not PC now..?

PEter, London, UK

The equation of the killing of civiilians in attacks on military targets with the deliberate killing of civilians has always troubled me. On may believe the former shows a calous regards toward civilians, but are people really willing to take the position that it is no different than deliberately trying to kill civilians?

And if you you really care about civilian deaths, do you really want you position to be that if you accidentally kill civilians, then you should go ahead and start killing more deliberately, on the grounds that the latter is no worse than the former?

D Summers, Menlo Park, USA, California

Weinkiper - you can't change history despite your efforts. Jerusalem was unified and belonged to the Paletinians till the Zionists caused its partition and drove the Palestinians out of their land. Remember the Stern and Irgun gangs who massacred palestinians villagers (mainly women and children) in order to ethnically cleanse Palestine.

Lets get some perspective - Israel has apartheid tendencies as a state and is the only country in the world that has elected members/leaders of the Stern and Irgun terrorist gangs as their leaders (Menachim Begin, David Ben-Gurion, Ariel Sharon). This is a country with serious blood on its hands

I Hussain, London, UK

That sniper is a freedom fighter - and will remain so unless people (especially the americans) start to condemn israelis randomnly killing palestinians. Too bad no one mentions anything about an Israeli sniper killing a 7 year old, or leaving a 9 year old paralysed for life. That is cowardice at best but more like sadistic murder.

S Klein, London, UK

My stance has always been an impartial one when it comes to the West Bank, however reading this report concerns me somewhat. How can a potato farmer who's attempting to help his mate's tractor be considered a legitimate target by a "sniper".
The line is not that fine when considering what constitutes a sniper, 100 yards away and shooting someone in the back requires a level of skill simliar to that of breathing.....
Let's be clear here, the gunman was a coward who shot someone in the back from a distance he could then run away from.
Total coward is what he is. Nothing more nothing less.

NJB, Toronto,

East Jerusalem was occupied in 1948 by the Jordanians with the help of the british, till then it was a uinyfied city, it was reunified in 1967, so please let the histrical events be correct..
or its too much to ask for?..

L. WEINKIPER, Ringwood,

"Another blow to the fragile peace process came in the form of 66 new residences being built in a Jewish settler community in occupied east Jerusalem."

What committment is that that is applicable new residences in Jerusalem?

There are more new Arab settlements in the West Bank since 1950 than there are Jewish settlements. The are filled with Arabs from adjacent states that ipso facto become "Palestinians".

Wallace Edward Brand, Alexandria, VA, US