It DOES affect freedom, LH. Any tightening of security affects my freedom. Any time I have to worry about suicidal hijackers when I plan to fly affects my freedom. When the police department posts officers outside the Synagogue it touches my freedom. When a shop owner puts a sign that says "NO MUSLIMS" in his window, it damn well said affects my freedom.
The grievance that these people have is simple. They want the destruction of the state of Israel and the death of its citizens and they have so stated the same.
Since the USA is Israels strongest ally, we have to be out of the picture before they can carry out whateven final solution they have in mind.
The palestinains are nothing more than pawns. They have been pawns since 1948 when Syria and Egypt convinced them to flee to the refugee camps in Jordan and elsewhere prior to the declaration of the State of Israel and the war that followed. The Muslim states assumed that they would drive the infant nation into the sea.
They didn't and the Palestinian Arabs have been used as an excuse ever since. There are palestinians in the Knesset (parliament) and many are prominent businessmen.
I am not trying to whitewash the Israelis. They have plenty to answer for like the West Bank settlements which only inflame the passions of the palestinians as they are driven from their homes to make room for yet another settlement. The suicide bombers and car bombs are the Palestinians answer.
A solution? Make Jerusalem an international city under the governance of the UN and move the UN there. Then the Shi'ites could go back to fighting the Sunnis and the rest of us could go play music.

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