Originally posted on 07/27/2014:

Quote Originally Posted by scumbag View Post
just read about the history of the conflict. start in the 1940's with the jews commiting the first act of terrorism when they blew up a Brit HQ/hotel and killed a bunch of innocents.

what you'll find is a very complicated situation with both sides having a lot of blood on their hands. but us Americans evidently lack the ability to do that and just listen to all of our media tell us how dem damn terrorist be killing innocent people for no good reason.

right wing extremists on both sides make peace a very difficult proposition.
This history of this conflict is fukked. That part of it can't be fixed. I took an entire course on this conflict back in undergrad ~ 2006ish, and I still have no idea how to unfukk this thing.

Not only do you have the local issues, you have the geo-political proxy war situation that is the fuel to this fire.

It's a mess. Historically and going forward.

However, this current conflict was summarized nicely in this video: (In my opinion, at least)