Reply #20: it's not possible-- but remember, the crusades lasted...

[mike_c]

...for two hundred years, and the struggle with the Ottoman Empire lasted for nearly seven hundred years in one form or another. Viewed that way, the twentieth century was really just a brief lull in the fighting that has gone on between christian and islamic empires since the twelfth century. History would seem to prove the untenability of this conflict, yet here we go again, fighting over who has the right to occupy the "holy land."