Letters to the Editor
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Did the author's tone remind anyone else of that Pulp song "Common People"? You know "'cause everybody hates a tourist, especially one who thinks it all such a laugh"?
I dunno, maybe I'm way off there...but it really seemed like the author refuses to see the other side of the equation - just what being an Israeli Jew entails.
As for the bigger issue here, I can't help but keep coming back to the idea that both sides are fighting for a dead ideal. This whole notion of the ethnically homogenous state is a 19th Century ideal that should've rightly been laid to rest with Wilsonian Democracy. It just doesn't work anymore, Globalization also means globalization of peoples as well as labour.
The sooner the two sides realize this, and the sooner they bring their respective extreme populations under control, the sooner there'll be peace.
(of course this assumes that the earlier poster who highlighted just how much the US gains from all this strife is wrong - and he's not.)