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Originally Posted by Livia

There are lots of Christians living quite happily as Israeli citizens. There are lots of Muslims living quite happily as citizens. But the Muslim you are referring to, the ones who still treat their women like second class citizens (women can't vote in Palestine... they can in Israel). You're referring to the people who fire rockets daily into Jerusalem, hiding in amongst women and children. They're the ones who want a two state solution.... which is fine! Only THEY want Jerusalem as their capital. And that will never happen.

There are extreme factions of the Jewish Faith too that subjugate women, it's not exclusive remember.
Those issues in the main culture not faith based and have in the past been more moderate, what we see is a bastardisation of a culture and faith to create the normalisation of extremism.
This can happen in any faith.

The idea that any military retaliation avoids women and children is of course wrong, as with any conflict it's always the innocent that suffer.