Yowser MSNBC opening up a tad. When will you folks start covering the non violent Palestinian protesters who have been thrown in Israeli prisons over the years? When will you MSNBCer's start covering the continuous expansion of illegal settlements? When will Chris Matthews, Rachel, Ed, Keith even whisper about the Goldstone Report or the UN report on what took place on the Mavi Marmara...the executions of human rights activist. We are watching and waiting. When will Rachel Maddow stop repeating the I lobbies lines on Iran. The debunked "Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map" hooey.

When will Chris Matthews or any of those talking heads have former Bush administration official and former CIA middle east analyst Flynt Leverett (Race for Iran blog)on his program to discuss the situation in Iran in a clear and concrete way based on facts. Instead of having some of the individuals who lied our nation into Iraq like Frank Gaffney and Douglas Feith o his program. Come on have experts on your program instead of warmongers all ready. Enough.

On middle east. You could have Prof Cole, Ilan Pappe, Phillip Weiss (Mondoweiss) Max Blumenthal (feel the hate video) Barghouti...come on mix it up on your program. Glenn Greenwald would be another great guest on the middle east conflict.

Open it up. Put another crack in the wall. Have Judge Goldstone on MSNBC you big chickens.

thank you for the photos, your narrative is a tad skewed tho. people may asked themselves why would they throw rocks if the soldiers are there to evict the settlers? you forgot to mention the Abu Nab family, which is 7 families a total of 45 people are also being evicted from their home. the eviction of Jewish settlers are being carried out at Beit Yonatan on the same day, for the settlers will be moving into the homes of the Abu Nab family. You can read about it in haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israel-stations-forces-across-east-jerusalem-neighborhood-likely-preparing-for-evictions-1.333020?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.212%2C2.215%2C

MSNBC, please follow up on the Israeli crimes against Palestinians. Please investigate the lawbreaking by the IDF army of Occupation--and the colonists it helps shield as they steal ever more land and houses.

Israel jails thousands of Palestinian people without charge in military prisons, under so-called "administrative detention"--imprisonments that are illegal under International Law.

MSNBC, please remind viewers that we U.S. citizens pay billions for all the horrors of the illegal Israeli Occupation of Palestine, with its infinite tragedies. The U.S. donates $3 billion a year in military aid, plus $10 billion over ten years, plus millions in loan guarantees and tax-deductible contributions, for the illegal colonies that deface beautiful, historic Palestine with hilltop fortresses of stucco, as well as the unspeakable Wall, checkpoints, prisons, and veritable prison camps. Recently the Obama Administration offered Israel a further $3 billion in fighter aircraft capable of launching a nuclear first strike against Iran.

Please, MSNBC, at long last: do your duty by telling the truth about Israeli efforts to expand illegally into "Eretz Israel"--or "Greater Israel"--, purging the rightful Palestinian landowners. Inform the unknowing U.S. public about how our tax dollars pay Israel for that terrible aggression against the peaceful people of Palestine.

If these children's parents would keep them at home and studying instead of using them as pawns to fight their war against Israel for them, then the children wouldn't get themselves arrested. A minor who throws stones here in the United States is called a "juvenile delinquent" and faces detention, as well.

SusieK The Palestinians receive more aid per person that pretty much any other country in the world. They also receive a great deal of aid from the US. Unfortunately, much of that aid is misspent towards rockets and mortars or corruption. The "unspeakable wall, checkpoints, prisons" wouldn't be there if it weren't for the unspeakable acts of violence against Israeli citizens (suicide bombers, rockets, mortars). When the Palestinians are ready for true peace they will stop embracing violence and murder and the walls and checkpoints will disappear.

Loretta,

Israel receives more aid from the US than any other country in the world. The Palestinian Authority receives a good amount too, but it's a fraction of what Israel receives. Additionally, Palestine is a third world country. Israel is a first-world, developed economy full with entrepreneurial success and a thriving technology sector.

I would love to see balanced coverage of the Israel Occupation and siege of Gaza but apparently Palestinians are born mute. We never see them on TV or hear them on the radio, or read them in the MSM. It would be a real surprise to hear their voices on any of the MSNBC shows. As to other networks, well we have to start somewhere.

Thanks for the wake-up call to the U.S. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of children held in Israeli jails and the treatment they recieve is protested even by Israeli human rights organizations.

From the Guardian UK - March 14, 2010

With more than 300 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons, human rights groups and Palestinian officials are increasingly concerned about the actions of the Israeli military.

The Israeli group B'Tselem said that security forces had "severely violated" the rights of a number of children, aged between 12 and 15, who had been taken into custody in recent months.

The family of one 13-year-old boy from Hebron who was arrested on 27 February by a military patrol and detained for eight days have brought a legal case against the authorities. The teenager, Al-Hasan Muhtaseb, described how he had been interrogated without a lawyer late into the night, forced to confess to throwing stones, made to sign a confession in Hebrew that he couldn't read, jailed with adults and brought before a military court. He was only released on bail eight days later, after considerable legal effort by several human rights groups. As he had signed a confession, he still faces a possible indictment for throwing stones – a charge that usually brings several months in jail but carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' jail.

Although most international attention focuses on diplomatic sparring in the Middle East, it is cases such as this teenager's arrest that are the reality for Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. The surprise about the teenager's experience is not that it is exceptional, but that it is a common occurrence.

As of the end of February, 343 Palestinian children were being held in Israeli prisons, according to Defence for Children International (DCI), which took up the Muhtaseb case. Israel routinely prosecutes Palestinian children as young as 12 and the Israeli legal system treats Palestinians as adults when they turn 16, but Israelis become adults only at 18. Ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children are "widespread, systematic and institutionalised", DCI said in a report last year.

Al-Hasan Muhtaseb was arrested early in the afternoon as he and his 10-year-old brother Amir were walking home through Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, after visiting their aunt.

"Two soldiers came to us and told us: 'Come over here.' We went to them," said Al-Hasan, a slight boy, neatly dressed, who barely looks his 13 years. "They took my brother and I don't know where they took him. I was sent inside the station and I never saw him after that."

They were detained separately. Amir was released later that night, deeply traumatised. "He was in a very, very bad psychological state," said his father, Fadel Muhtaseb, 45. "He had wet himself. He was terrified." The boy said he had been held with his eyes covered by a hat in a room where there was also a dog, which he could hear panting.

More articles and news coverage of the treatment of Palestinians is greatly needed. We often hear the Israeli story, but rarely do we see news coverage of the reality of the Palestinians living under the occupation. We hear about continued settlement building in East Jerusalem, but we don't hear about the demolition of Palestinian homes to make way for these settlements. Let's see more media coverage, PLEASE!!

This news leak is too little too late...all I can say

I have great sympathy with the Palestinians, I can well understand why children throw stones at the Israeli soldiers, the continued occupation and the unjust harsh treatment of Palestinians in their own land will continue to produce suicide bombers, If the people of the west received unbiased news they would think differently I'm sure.

I pray for a just solution.