Also, Spector, it sounds like you were equating(in the example of the "pacifist from Ramallah")pacifism or nonviolence with indifference or noninvolvement. Those Palestinians who are working nonviolently are JUST as militant and committed to the liberation cause as those who use force...and it's not your place to imply that they aren't.
It's not as if being a Palestinian pacifist gives you some magical protection from the IDF. They kill the nonviolent just as quickly as they kill the violent.