Until their supporters here are willing to address the greater numbers of Jews driven out of Arab nations AND SETTLED BY ISRAEL, and the ethnic cleaning of the West bank after the 1948 war, there will never be any consensus here about the region.

No matter how may times that is addressed and acknowledged absolutely nothing can be done about it. It happened 70 years ago and, unless you can provide a time machine, what do you expect people to do? The problems in Gaza are happening now and things can be done about them. You cannot justify what is happening now by saying the Arabs did much worse. Unless you are just talking about revenge?