[pierrem15]

The Israelis would simply like to get on with their lives without the risk of being massacred by Arabs or the Iranians at every turn.

Israel was established in 1947: How many times has it been attacked?

The root cause of violence in the Middle East is Muslim primitivism: the complete lack of development of any mediating institutions setting limits on political authority and the inability to separate political legitimacy from Islam. Every political grievance gets turned into a competition of "who is more Muslim," leading to a spiral of radicalization.

[Kentfromohio]

Committing genocide in an Arab neighborhood against Arabs when you have zero friends in the neighborhood is a bad way to seek peace.