[Postal Worker with a gun]

Neither side seems willing to tolerate the other in their Holy Lands. Your Muslim killing non-Muslims is no different than the self appointed Israeli vigilantes I ran into. Throughout history, religion has been used to incite violence between peoples.

People with little or no education look to their religious leaders for guidance. So when the mullah/rabbi/priest points and says these people are bad/sinners/evil , these uneducated clods feel that God (through his representative) is telling them what they have to do. None of the people in any of the incidents you mentioned were exactly rocket scientists.

Racism is also a factor in several of the incidents you mentioned. Even here in the USA where discrimination is against the law it is very prevalent.

For the religious and racial reasons alone, the Arabs and Jews will never have a lasting peace in the Middle East. Goes back to what I have been saying all along, we need to stay out of this and let them kill each other off. Taking sides only adds us to the target list.

[Northern Alliance]

None of the people in any of the incidents you mentioned were exactly rocket scientists.

Many suicide bombers have been highly educated, including M.D's, but one remaining thing I want to explore with you.

You mention repeatedly that "These people have literally been fighting each other for THOUSANDS of years." Please post some sources, because here a quote from an extreme anti-Zionist website run by Jews who are opposed the creation of Israel, which I offer as proof that statement is nonsense.
http://www.cactus48.com/earlyhistory.html

"Before the 20th century, most Jews in Palestine belonged to old Yishuv, or community, that had settled more for religious than for political reasons. There was little if any conflict between them and the Arab population. Tensions began after the first Zionist settlers arrived in the 1880's...when [they] purchased land from absentee Arab owners, leading to dispossession of the peasants who had cultivated it." Don Peretz, "The Arab-Israeli Dispute."
I think you are confusing Christian-Muslim conflicts with Arab-Jewish ones!

BTW, this is my last post on this thread, so you get the last word.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The extremist factor is more than an order of magnitude smaller among the "Jooz," PLUS this: among Muslims even most of the "moderate" ones wink-and-nod at the extremist jihads. Moderate Jews in Israel will much more likely tell you "no way if I can help it." Note too that the contemporary secular state of Israel has NEVER launched a war of adventure. Always, always, always it has been self defense.