How involved must one be to understand that the conflict is not, and was not, between Jews and Palestinians. Had the two peoples been left to themselves, there would have been separate states from 1948. The Palestinians have not waged war on Israel, they have no army, no navy, no planes and no bombs. They are in as impoverished a state, today, as they have always been. Israel is not threatened by Palestine. The threat is from that section of the Arab world that sees a Jewish state as blasphemy. This faction is no more interested in a solution (outside of the destruction of Israel) than they have ever been in the rights of the Palestinians. That;s not just propoganda. The Palestinians have been, for centuries, the peons of the Arab world. There land was leased from absentee Egyptian and Syrian landlords, very much like feudal lords and vassals. I dont remember the Imams championing Palestinian rights before 1948. The shameful truth is that no one was championing the Palestinian cause before it escalated to an inconvenient war. In spite of its present Right Wing government, Israel is not the big, bad wolf she is painted by the radical chic. I oppose retributive strikes, as a matter of princlple, but, faced with an enemy who will accept nothing less than her dstruction, what would you have her do? It's easy to take the high moral ground, but, unless you have a viable alternative, your moral ground is just so much sophistry.