Sadat understood that his best way top obtain an agreement with Israel was to trade land for peace. His advantage was he was not obsessed with the notion that lands conquered by Muslims can never to returned. My Muslim colleges tell me day in and day out that its not about land its about the Jews have no place in controlling Muslim lands. Their in lies the issue the Jews just want to live in there ancestral homeland. But the Muslim world says yes you can live there only if we are in charge. Also the west cannot get its head around after trying to eliminate the "Jewish Problem" that the Jews don't want to live with them or with the Muslims controlling there destiny either hence wanting a place of there own, this being based on 2000 years of Christian persecution. Hence the stalemate.

They want it ALL. First Israel. Then Europe. Then AMERICA.

It is at its heart a ideological/religious conflict, that will not be influenced by the withdrawal from more dunams of land. It is really part of an internal conflict going on within the Arab/Muslim civilization, as it clashes with modernity. We must stand firm while at the same time seeking to minimize the flames whenever possible.

"Talkbackers" are human beings that say many things, but we have much bigger problems: Violent leaders, powerful people.

They are started because somebody wants something that they do not have. The Arabs want us dead - hence the reason they have started EVERY war. Wish we had a leader that would answer them in the only manner an Arab understands.

Plocker insults human intelligence again. "Violent talkbackers"?? What inanity. Talkbacks are a form of free speech. The issue of war and peace is simple. Peace reigns when the good totally defeat the evil. Such as the permanent peace in Europe and Asia resulting for the WW II Allies' drubbing of the Axis Powers. Peace will reign here when Israel totally defeats our genocidal "Palestinian" foes.

It is an evil ideology invented by a deviant pedophile living in Dark Ages and it is being feted as "religion" by the degenerate Western World until this day today.By the time it disappears from the face of the Earth the price in human life will be staggering .

We don't fully Know the answer but there are factors .In the French and Russian Revolutions Bread Peace and Land were Interwoven but the Results were War and Famines.In the Thirty Years War in Europe Catholic versus Protestant produced Enormous Barbarity for its Time .Liberal or Semi Human Rights Democracy is a Reasonably Stable Structure and in most Ages the Best we can hope fur.But Denmark and Czechoslovakia were Hopeless against the Nazi Barbarianism tho Finland Gave Stalin a Bloody nose .Human Nature the Desire to Kill and Unpredictability and Inequality are Big causes.A truce with Hamas is needed or a Quiet .

This isn't a war. Killing of almost defenceless people in small closed area isn`t war. This is a massacre. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasn't also a "war".

If ignorant battle is for the Lord is then that we may be deceived. Until hell departs with it vagabonds - pretty soon we know.

when there is enemy there is wars . realy we do not shoose our enemy but israil did when it d ecided that this land is its homelan d and this i s not so far history it was less than 150 years

to go on undisturbed with his nuclear program,i think.

You need to put a few zeroes after your “150 years”. In any case, you are wrong; read some history and then post. Very simple.

Israel is trying its best to avoid civilian casualties. But they will not stand down and allow rockets to continue to rain down on Israel by sacrificing Israeli civilians for arab civilians (whom, by the way, Hamas hides behind). Hamas has attempted to kill almost defenseless people with their rockets, and thank G-d have failed. And Hamas is not defenseless either. Pay attention to all the facts, not just auto response slogans.

'Denying the rival's sincere and national feelings' ... may I add; by an alien converts that have no other connection to that part of the world except a murky claim based on fairytales.

Chaim, the issues of war and peace may be simple to the simple mind. If the defeat of evil at the end of WWII resulted in permanent peace in Europe, tell that to the inhabitants of the Balkans, Ukraine, and elsewhere. And, tom, I don't know about Islam being invented by a paedophile. Perhaps it's better not to look too closely at the ancient world through contemporary spectacles otherwise we may be accused of throwing stones while living in glass houses. However, I grant you Islam may have been invented by a deviant since if its inventor was not deviating there would be no new religion. Just the same with Judaism and Christianity.

WAR DID NOT BREAK OUT, THIS WAS PLANNED LONG AGO, THE TEENS WERE FAKE TO CREATE AN INSTIGATING PRETEXT, THEY ARE FAKE, MOTHERS FAKE, KIDNAPPING FAKE, MURDERS FAKE.

of garbage, from one of the main creators of fairy tales.

All your words are fake. You can't stand the truth so you make things up, much like many others here. But facts are facts. And your wishful thinking is not facts.

Dr. Pinker sounds so logical. But he is wrong to postulate that both sides have equal reasons for fighting. The Israeli Jews don't want to fight. They desperately wish to live in peace. The Palestinian Arabs are motivated by a religious hatred of Jews and wish to eradicate them from Israel. Pinker also discounts Muslim anti-Antisemitism. Yes, it's religious hatred, but it's one sided.

The problem might lie that Muslims feel together against a common cause like Kashmir in India. Kashmir has a very simple solution, but hurriyat and political class not allowing development. Neighbors like pak add continous strife with their highest export - terrorism to India. Now they are bearing the consequences. The only way it can be eliminated is by taking united stand against terrorism by all countries. Also countries like us should stop tacitly supporting terrorists and focus on a diplomatic endgame. In the case of Hamas they should be wiped out, else it would be a continuous problem.