What happened in 1948 or 1848 or 48 BC explains the origin of the situation and no more.

You mean if you'd survived of the Holocaust and heard you could settle safely in a Jewish state guaranteed by the United Nations where there'd be no more pogroms, you wouldn't go?

Perhaps you're fixing blame on the U.N. or the British? And don't forget the five Arab armies that attempted to eradicate Israel as soon as it was proclaimed, putting it in a permanently defensive position?

Don't bother. All the people who created Israel as a legal entity, recognized as such by nearly every nation in the world, are long gone. They're beyond the reach of Palestinian rage. Those Arab armies are gone too.

Yet Hamas (and others) want to destroy today's Israel and kill, rape, and torture Israeli Jews (and others) who are alive and living peaceable lives today. Cost in Palestinian lives no object. Hamas want a Muslim state under a fascist Hamas regime. No rights for women or sexual minorities, by the way. No "two-state solution." No compromise. Elimination, not negotiation.

You don't get much more evil than that, no matter what your claimed justification.

But as I said, while shouting and pointing fingers feels good, it's a waste of time, because each side is determined to destroy the other. Calling down a pox on both is equally meaningless.

Workable solutions are still welcome. Got one?