These guys are different from terrorists how?

In addition to using anti-tank missiles as weapons of political assassination, attack helicopters and tanks against stone-throwers, and bulldozing the homes of families of suspected terrorists, the Israeli army is taking Palestinian hostages and using them as human shields. In one case, they tied an innocent thirteen year-old boy to the hood of a jeep to deter stone-throwing youths, and in another they forced a neighbor to knock on a militant's door to deliver an ultimatum, resulting in the door-knocker's death.

This type of barbarity reduces the Israeli army to just another well-armed band of thugs, particularly in its reticence to fix the problem and discipline its troops. How exactly do they expect the Palestinians to react, other than with more violence?