Uh-huh. The trouble is, Hezbollah and Hamas and the Iranians hold exactly the same philosophy. You have several sets of people there who are convinced that they have nothing left to lose...and that it's all the other guy's fault...and that they dare not show one sign of weakness or step back a single step.

The same error in all cases.

In a room full of paranoid people who all hate and fear each other and are all convinced that it's completely the other guy's fault...what happens next? Can anything good happen?

Iran threatens to destroy Israel. Isreal threatens to destroy Iran. Hamas threatens to wipe out Israel. Israel threatens to wipe out Hamas. And so on, and so on...

Sounds to me like two sets of people suffering from the same basic psychological problem.

And they will all say: "Yeah, but they did it to us first!" (And believe it too.)