The television images on Al-Jazeera have been burningly clear. There is akind of Palestinian heroism in evidence there that makes this the storyof our time. An entire army, navy, and air force supplied munificently andunconditionally by the United States have been wreaking destruction on the 18per cent of the West Bank and 60 per cent of Gaza afforded Palestinians afterten years of negotiations with Israel and the US. Palestinian hospitals,schools, refugee camps and civilian residences have been at the receiving end ofa merciless, criminal assault by Israeli troops huddled inside their helicoptergun-ships, F-16's and Merkavas, and still the poorly armed resistance fighterstake on this preposterously more powerful force undaunted and unyielding. In theUS, CNN and newspapers like The New York Times fail, to their discredit,to ever mention that "the violence" is uneven and that there aren'ttwo sides involved here, but only one state turning all its great power againsta stateless, repeatedly refugeed, and dispossessed people, bereft of arms andreal leadership, with the aim of destroying this people, "dealing them aterrible blow" as the war criminal who leads Israel shamelessly put it. Asan index of how deranged Sharon has become, I might quote here what he said to Ha'aretzon 5 March: "The PA is behind the terror, it's all terror. Arafat isbehind the terror. Our pressure is aimed at ending the terror. Don't expectArafat to act against the terror. We have to cause them heavy casualties andthen they'll know they can't keep using terror and win politicalachievements."