I have been to Palestine, too. And everything Adbusters has written here is 100% true and accurate.

Richie,

You seem to be a thoughtful and reasonable person but for the fact that you seem compelled to gloss over what are the facts of history as understood by any honest observer of that tortured land. There are huge and important differences of scale and intent between Nazi policies of extermination and Israeli expansion but there are also striking similarities. As has been well understood and openly discussed for decades by mainstream Israeli historians such as Benny Morris not to mention high Israeli officials the Zionist project was founded on ethnic cleansing. This is not controversial outside of U.S. political discourse. An even more honest interpretation of its history is that aggression and slaughter (as was the European onslaught of North, Central and South America) was the main tool employed to establish the "Jewish" state. Thirty years ago Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur observed that since 1948, "we have been fighting against a population that lives in villages and cities." As Israel's most prominent military analyst, Zeev Schiff, summarized his remarks, "the Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations, purposely and consciously...the Army, he said, has never distinguished civilian [from military] targets...[but] purposely attacked civilian targets." The reasons were explained by Abba Eban: "there was a rational prospect, ultimately fulfilled, that affected populations would exert pressure for the cessation of hostilities." Eban was commenting on a review of Labor government attacks against civilians by Prime Minister Begin, presenting a picture, Eban said, "of an Israel wantonly inflicting every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations in a mood reminiscent of regimes which neither Mr. Begin nor I would dare to mention by name." Should Adbusters be condemned for mentioning the name Abba Eban dare not? There is nothing "gray" about the basic crimes upon which Israel was founded. There is nothing gray about the second class status of non-Jews in Israel. There’s nothing gray about laws being forwarded in the Knesset requiring loyalty oaths by immigrants to Israel declaring and affirming Israel’s existence as a “Jewish” state thereby forcing the newcomers (as well as non-Jewish citizens) to swear to their political and social subjugation. This kind of thinly veiled racist ideology has prompted the Israeli social affairs minister Isaac Herzog to remark "There is a whiff of fascism on the margins of Israeli society.” There is nothing "gray" about the prison that is Gaza being attacked relentlessly from the air by F-16's (none being scratched in 555 sorties) and heavy artillery provided by the U.S., targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure killing some 1400 mostly women and children. There is nothing gray about the use of phosphorous. There is nothing gray about cluster bombs used in tight civilian neighborhoods. There is nothing gray about 20,000 people killed in Lebanon in 1982. There's nothing gray about the Sabra and Shatilla massacre. There's nothing gray about kids with rocks against M-1 Abrahms tanks. There is nothing gray about attacking unarmed aid ships and killing their passengers in open seas. There's nothing at all gray about what was for years a death toll ratio of 40 to 1 Palestinian to Israeli which was of no concern to those in power in Israel and the U.S. but eventually became intolerable when the ratio came down to 3 to 1. And yes there is nothing gray about the wanton murder that is Palestinian terror against the Israeli population. What is remarkable is an Israeli mindset which has indeed become psychotic (see Uri Avnery, Ilan Papne, Gideon Levy and many other Israeli/Jewish writers who have seen this psychosis up close) to the point where just like in the U.S. there is a collective cry of “Why do they hate us?” as they go about their decades long illegal killing, annexation and dismemberment of the Palestinian people and their land.
I think the only gray to be found is in the answer to the moral quandary posed by the question of whether violent resistance to decades of murder and occupation, imprisonment of thousands indefinitely without trial, the demolition of homes and orchards and the expansion of settlements with no end in sight is legitimate.