"cause of this conflict" -- Which conflict precisely, Jim? If you mean the Israeli expansionism one, then you know we don't disagree. I know you sometimes like to dismiss my grief at the way it has all developed as 'lip-service', but you don't really know the half of it, you know; and are not as gifted as you sometimes appear to like to think in the ability to read my mind.

If the conflict you refer to, otoh, is the one whereby the world's entire safety is threatened by militant Islamism in C21, just as it was by Lenino-Marxist Bolshevism during much of C20, the very mention of which I have learnt by experience is liable to bring from you the oh-so-convincing counter-argument of a knee·jerk cry of 'racism': why then, I see little prospect of convincing you, either.

But by all means let us try to keep as much heat and personal animosity out of any views we may exchange on such matters, indeed.

~M~