I don't think we can just say something like "Those are the good guys, those are the bad guys", life isn't black and white. Terrorism isn't the right way to solve anything, but who excactly is the one to say what is terrorism and what is not?
Exactly; both sides are good and bad. There is no "good side" or "bad side" in the world; there are simply sides. In the end, you just have to pick among them based on other things. (for example, the US is arguably just as much "terrorist" as the Al Qaeda people, so that is of no importance; you must judge by other factors when choosing a side)
You can't grasp concepts that run against your currently ingrained beliefs, and fail to see the logic in any opposing argument.
This is the single worst part of human nature in my opinion. I have seen this everywhere in the world, and it is the by far largest deterrent to scientific and technological progress.
They've both done things that are wrong, but during my lifetime, all i,ve seen are pictures of israeli teenagers dead, after a "freedom" figher blew themselves up. I doubt the Israeli's will tolerate the lastest attack, they tolerated the others because they sought the cease fire but the terrorists wouldnt listen. Is arafat really in control of his people?
Well, the Western world essentially operates the media, and the Jews have a lot of power in those nations (especially the big giant, the US) so they will always be showing the things that make themselves look "right."
I'm not against Israel at all - in fact, as I said earlier, I think Israel should just blast down Palestine with an all-out assault (hehe I am opposed to any religious fanaticism and also any avoidance to new technology) - but you cannot really determine who is good and who is bad here. Personally I think that moral values are simply human conceptions and by-products of early civilization that cannot be objectively applied to anything in the universe, and should therefore be discarded.
Peace does not mean enlightenment.
I quite agree with that. Peace will get us nowhere until the formation of a world government in a few centuries.
The Israelis want the Palestinians all dead or forced off the West Bank area.
The Palestinians want more Israelis dead and all their land back.
Right; each side wants the complete annihilation of the other, and the problem will not be solved until one party has been destroyed.
Unfotunately, because the international opinion, even that is not going to happen, looks like people think it's just better to close our ears and forget about the whole thing.
This is probably the only reason Israel has not yet attacked and conquered all of Palestine. (a very similar case is India and Pakistan) The thing is that the nations involved have to be big players in global politics. When the US was attacked, they didn't ask for anyone's permission to blow up Afghanistan; they just went right in, knowing that nobody would try stop them. At some point, however, I have a feeling that these nations will simply have had enough (maybe in the next 15 years), and would just attack their offenders, screw world opinion. Their enemies do not have sizeable military forces and the outcome of such a conflict is quite obvious. The rest of the world will protest, but they will not do anything beyond that.
