Greg Stephens, you forgot to state who are the villains of the Middle East Crisis, if not the forces of history. I have to stand by my belief that those most responsible were absent superpowers who didn't understand the impact of their actions - the English, the Americans, and the Ottoman Turks. In many ways, these nations had a benevolent attitude, but they meddled in a situation they didn't understand.
Of course, we also must put a lot of blame on the Germans and their supporters in Europe who caused the Holocaust; and upon the Russians and others who were responsible for the pogroms of Eastern Europe.
Most of the immediate blame lies on the shoulders of terrorists and extremists on both sides - but we all must share responsibility for the ultimate causes. And we all have a responsibility to be generous and heroic in coming to a solution to the problem.
-Joe Offer-