When one says that it is a pity certain Palestinian groups seem to hate Israelis' children more than they love their own, one opens oneself up to accusations of "racism" and "spouting Israeli propaganda", but how else is one to interpret creating television programs targeting children with the message that suicide bombing is something noble and praiseworthy?
It is tempting to think Israel's support for settlement building in the West Bank is the "root cause" of all the conflict in that part of the world, but while I do agree that most of the settlements must go (especially the ones far away from the "Green Line"), I am not so naive as to think that a desire for peace would suddenly bloom in the hearts of the Palestinians if every last settlement were simply to vanish into thin air. At heart, this is a conflict with a religious basis, and one which does not allow for any peaceful resolution: the Palestinians (and much of the rest of the Muslim world) believes that all of the former British mandate is holy soil which belongs to them by right, and the very existence of a Jewish state on any of it is therefore considered unacceptable. Seeing as the Israelis aren't about to either let themselves be driven into the Mediterranean sea or submit to becoming subservient subjects of a Muslim state, this conflict will run and run regardless of anything foreign politicians might do to try to bring it to a close.
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