Rendered evil?  Is that like rendered fat?  No, of course not, but it makes about as much sense. 

It has taken me some time to come to terms with my anger and disappointment with Isreal, but I am now an unapologetic critic of Isreali actions.  Israel is the one in this conflict that has rockets, jets, helicopters, bulldozers, tanks and an army.  Isreal is using her military assests to silence, terrorize and punish the Palestinian people not for suicide bombings but for dissenting—dissent which by any account is overwhelmingly justified.  If anything, the suicide bombers have played into Sharon's bloody hands, and he has encouraged them every step of the way.  I have observed nothing but contempt from the Israeli government toward the Palestinians, whose land they occupy.  No rational assessment can conclude from current Israeli actions that the Palestinian people have any hope for the future beyond complete submission without protest, and increased suffering beneath the heel of a boot—until they are exterminated.  Israel wants ALL the land.

If there is an evil here, it certainly does not spring from the heart of a child who blows herself up in desperation and rage.  Nor does it originate in the heart of a 23 year old boy who has faced the black hole of an Israeli gunbarrel—more often than not pointed by a soldier in a livid rage—every work day for a year.  I submit to you that evil is a quality of behavior, not an entity in itself, and the side whose behavior has had the most evil effect is not the side least powerful and most villified.  Israel must change, or suffer the consequences of harboring evil, which will not come in the form af a crushing military assault like the one being waged against the Palestinians.  The consequences to Israel-the-oppressor will be a godless rot from within its own soul.  I think it has begun.