Quote Originally Posted by BKom View Post
I just love the discovered wisdom here. The Palestinians are blameless in the face of the Israeli behemoth? Yet, Israel has enemies encircling it, a prospect that would have Americans wetting their pants daily if they had to face it. And the Palestinians could have peace for their people with concessions from both sides today, if they simply stopped doing the fighting for other countries who care not at all about them.

Seems to me that the Palestinians and Israelis should have a lot in common. And all the meddling from us, and about fifty other countries, is keeping them from realizing it and acting on it.
I didn't mean to imply any of the two sides was blameless, I meant to say Palestinians appear to be oppressed and weaker in this conflict and not vice versa.

I agree they have a lot in common, both have been abused (by different parties) and live in fear, both use terrorism against each other and both are semites to name a few common things. But crucial factor is that billions of dollars non-green aid and free bombs/bulldozers that we give to Israel to enable its occupation/oppression of mostly unarmed Palestinians placed in open air prison contributes to blowbacks like 9/11, TSA gropes against us whereas green aid does not.