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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-02-09 11:09 PM
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2. Well obviously, if the relationship between Israel and Palestine wasn't extraordinarily complex...
...it'd have been resolved sixty friggin' years ago!

Besides, you can argue that most nations do not "want to get along" with others. The history of Western AND Eastern civilization is nothing but one conflict after another. Peace as national policy is definitely a relatively new philosophy.

You can further argue that humans at their base levels are neurotic primates who, due to their oversized brains, see life as a series of insecurities...and all of human civilization is an impulse to rectify these insecurities, no matter what the cost. That leads to conflict, which leads to war, which we as a species have been doing as long as we've walked upright.

:rant:
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