So, Teribus, are any people whom you happen to feel a natural affinity for in any given conflict "without sin"...and therefore justified in casting the next stone? Or has there been a series of errors on all sides?

What will correct those errors? More fighting...or forgiveness and compromise and mutual accommodation?

You know, it all comes down to very basic stuff like money, firepower, and strong allies...those who have such things are lording it over those who don't, and the ones presently on the bottom of the pecking order are blowing themselves up in marketplaces. All these grandiose pretensions of moral justification and "defence" that you hear from Israel, the USA, or Hamas are just propaganda and window-dressing to whip up the emotions of the voters and foot soldiers. Those voters and foot soldiers will always believe that the other side cast the first stone.

It doesn't matter anymore who cast the first stone! That is not the problem here. The problem is that people are still doing it.

- LH