Hallo Lisa, having read the whole series today, I'm very impressed by your ability to catch the atmosphere of those days vividly and displaying analytical distance at once. I want to thank you for letting me empathize with you and, presumably, a larger part of Israelian society during that period. But there also is a major irritation because of one word in the following paragraph:

That night Eran said that any other country would have sent the air force in and flattened Jenin, instead of risking soldiers' lives with house-to-house searches in the narrow, crowded streets where Palestinian gunmen shot Israeli soldiers from the low roofs. He wasn't the only person who made that observation, but I was too tired to argue about morality. Normal people say extreme things during times of stress.

I mean the word "observation", by which you seemingly confirm the judgement about other nations and thereby deny their morality. I doubt that the Italians, the Canadians or the Dutch would have "flattened Jenin" or only "would have sent the airforce in". Do you really think they would have done so?