Listening to talk radio each morning before I go to work I hear vitriolic condemnations by both sides, particularly by what I consider are fundamentalists who do not seem to tolerate the existence of the other side.

My belief is that both in Isreal and Palestine the majority of people just want to live their lives - and these are the real victims of the 'dispute'.

With regard to the futility of poking sticks in hornets' nest, surely the strategy if to provoke the hornets so that they swarm, and more people with more sticks rally against the hornets.

The world has become a more dangerous place again