[wideawake]

There's historical blame on both sides.

I'm sure there is.

But Israel has uniformly proceeded with a measured military response while the Arabs conduct themselves with unexampled savagery.

Both sides are locked-in and trapped in hate.

I disagree.

Going by the Israeli press, only a small percentage of Israelis seem willing to characterize Arabs as non-human animals. Going by the Arabic press, only a small percentage of Arabs seem willing to admit that Jews are human beings.

And there is no solution.

There is a solution, but precisely because Israelis don't really hate Arabs they can't bring themselves to use the solution.

The solution is to drive all Arabs unwilling to be productive citizens of Israel over the border.

That solution is still more humane that the one the US meted out to Indians who were not willing to be productive members of US society.

Something tells me if Apache terrorists were blowing themselves up in American casinos and strip malls we'd adopt even harsher tactics than Israel has.

[ultima ratio]

Jews hate Palestinians--though they don't advertise their hate the way Arabs do. Since each threatens the other, they hate each other. That is human nature.

As for a solution--there is always the temptation in war to go beyond the parameters of civilized behavior. It is not a lack of hatred that inhibits Jews, but an unwillingness to be uncivilized.

[tpaine]

There is a solution, but precisely because Israelis don't really hate Arabs they can't bring themselves to use the solution.

The solution is to drive all Arabs unwilling to be productive citizens of Israel over the border.
That solution is still more humane that the one the US meted out to Indians who were not willing to be productive members of US society.

Something tells me if Apache terrorists were blowing themselves up in American casinos and strip malls we'd adopt even harsher tactics than Israel has.
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Indian terrorists were raping & pillaging our frontier for two hundred years, and we were harsh...
But by & large we sent them back to their reservation concentration camps, --- where those who wanted to were free to walk away and join our society.

Many did exactly that, and I was fortunate enough to know some of them in my youth. Still do.. Fine people. Folks of amer-indian heritage are all around us, in every state.

Somehow, this gradual melding is not happening in Israel.

Why?

I would bet that it is because of the religious 'thing'. - On both sides -

- Soon, I can see the world shrugging its shoulders, and saying in effect; --

--- a pox on both your houses.