oh boy. The Palestine/Israel conundrum.
we in the west are in no position to lecture either side about this particular ‘problem’; hell, Britain ‘created’ the problem in 1948 with the partition of what was then “Palestine” to create a homeland for the exiled survivors of the Holocaust. IIRC this was sanctioned by the newly created United Nations.
Had the Nazis not come to power in 1933 & set about their attempted extinction of the Jewish population of Europe, then perhaps we might not be seeing the problems we see now.
But why did the Nazis come to power?
A political – and democratically elected – reaction to the economic reparations against Germany resulting from the First World War, which can in turn probably be traced back to the Franco-Prussian war of the 19th century and back beyond that again.
But go back further to the Crusades. “The Holy Land” has been a battleground of sorts for over a thousand years – do we think we can change that now, especially in light of the current political situation? No, I don’t think we can.
And while this goes on, there will always be conflict between the “west” and the Islamic world.
I wish there was a way out, but I can’t see one.