[Livia]

Originally Posted by the truth

both sides hold the old testament eye for an eye tooth for a tooth mantra , thus you end up with this mindless bloodbath.
Israel should never have been set up there in the first place, disastrous idea NOT driven to helps the jews, driven by the wests desire to have a wepaons arsenal in the middle east and anyone who dare question it gets batted down with the anti semintism brush, a brush now so corrupted and perverted its almost lost all its meaning
as it stands , the world should recognise palestine as a country in its own right.
ONLY then can you even begin talk of peace.
an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind

Israel wasn't invented in the forties, the Jews were in Israel for thousands of years before Islam came into being. It's the Jewish spiritual homeland, not just a state set up by the West. Where else would Jews go?

Although some still understand the 'eye for an eye' passage to speak about revenge, in Jewish law, an eye for an eye is interpreted in the main to mean 'only one eye for one eye' meaning, you only get what is fair in trade.

A two state solution is the only viable one, but neither side want to consider the possibility.