Reply #59: I really can see both sides of the Palestinean/Israeli conflict

[noonwitch]

I do think both sides have legitimate complaints against the other. Unfortunately, very few leading nations maintain neutrality, and take one side or the other.

The Israeli's are the descendants of people who survived the Holocaust. They built a nation out of a desert, but displaced the palestineans to do so. The Palestineans are treated like second class citizens in the land of their birth. Those innocent of involvement in terrorism are treated as if they are guilty of it because they share the same race and religion as the terrorists.

The Israeli's are wrong to tear down houses of people who are related to terrorists. The Palestineans are wrong to target civilians in their resistance to Israeli occupation. Both sides' allies are so convinced that for religious reasons, they must take one side regardless of the bad things that side is doing.

The US needs to cut off all aid (except humanitarian aid, when needed) to both sides until they stop killing each other. As long as we are selling the Israelis the bullets and the bulldozers, we are feeding war in the area.