an admirable explanation and analysis, Little Hawk...perceived "suffering" is a major component of the current mess.

Israel, being better armed and organized, can currently muscle their way around the Palestinian population...unless they push TOO hard, in which case they anger all the Arab/Muslim states and have another 1947-1948 situation--with bigger guns involved.

Sadly, there seems to be no 'leader' cabable of stating the obvious...that two dogs can't have the same bone, unless they divide it, and no one seems to think that half a bone is worth much...

(Oh..a picky aside... One does not 'wreck' havoc, one 'wreaks' havoc.A very common mistake, but one of my particular pet peeves about language misuse....wreak is the present tense of 'wrought' as in "What hath God wrought?")

ok...carry on..(it was still a well thought out piece of writing)