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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
The Middle East was, continues to be, and always will be a #### show. You're never going to get two cultures who base everything they do on competing religions to settle their differences. Eliminate the religious nonsense and maybe a lasting peace is possible. But as long as religion is front and center to this, nothing will change. Both sides will commit atrocities in the sake of defending their beliefs.
I actually feel for the Palestinians. They are living under apartheid and are subjected to being fourth class citizens with few rights. They are driven to those who have the strength and support to stand up to those who oppress them, but ultimately they are the worst representatives they could have and only suffer because of their actions. They are pawns in a sick game playing out in front of us. They have no hope of victory in any shape or form. Israel will get them killed because they don't value them as people. Hamas will get them killed because they only want to inflict damage on Israel and hide behind the Palestinians. What a horrible existence they must face. My sympathy goes out to them because they are the innocents caught in the crossfire and treated like chattel regardless of the actions by either side.
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This isn’t a religious war for most Jews and Israelis. What the hell are you on about. This is our ethnic homeland, which we were expelled resulting in 2000 years of persecution. You may think this is a religious battle because you read up on this conflict once every few years when it is in the news, but to Jews this is about the survival of our people and always has been. We don’t convert, we are not competing with any religion for global domination. In an ideal world we would have loved to live side by side with peaceful neighbours but that has never been the case. Israel was born out of war because the Islamic world could not stand for a Jewish state. The Palestinians have had many opportunities for their own state even after waging wars but have continuously shot themselves in the foot.