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Originally Posted by classicman

He said, she said. Who struck first. They all need to STFU & start over like adults. There is so much friggin blame to go around its pointless to mention it.
The problem as some here have pointed out, is that they are teaching their children HATE.
Nothing will change until that does.

They are both teaching hate, by example.

It's like this, a prisoner from GITMO was released by the Bush administration awhile back, and now he is apparently an al qaeda leader in Yemen. This man had claimed he was innocent when he was captured, but he was detained for years, with no trial. So the question is, what if he actually WAS innocent, but because we detained him for so long (and probably tortured him), and he grew to hate us so much, did we actually create an al qaeda leader?

I see a very real resemblance here with us/Iraq and Israel/Palestine - big strong country with an army, fighting a resistance movement. Many Americans hate the Iraqi insurgency, but did we not create that hate ourselves, by our actions in THEIR country? (OK, so we are not colonizing or staying, but we are certainly occupying, and have in some cases acted atrociously.)