Sometimes, watching the apparently never-ceasing violence in and around Israel, this Nina Paley video seems pretty darned spot on.
Of course, despite the historical breakdown (http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/), there are nuances that something this simple can't encompass, and people spend a lot of time on those nuances — but, in the end, they always come down to blood on the streets, demands to destroy the other side, and promises of bloody retribution for the last outrage committed.
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I knew a guy, in college, that came from Palestine. I asked him, at one point, if he thought the fighting would ever stop, or if he thought it was still worth fighting over.
He said, with some conviction, that he will always fight for his homeland, and that he has no problems killing or dying for it.
So, I put it to him, another way, and asked what the exact price was, in blood, that he was willing to pay before it was no longer worth the effort. Was it worth wiping out humankind for? Of course not. Ergo, there must be some threshold where it is no longer worth it. The simple fact is, that, on principle, he hadn't even considered that; the injustice against his people was the only thing that mattered, and the price did not.
Technically the Israelis should have attacked the British to get at the Palestinians.
Frankly I don’t see it ending until somebody gets stupid with ‘instant sunshine’, and that region is uninhabited.
@LH Yeah. I, frankly, don’t see it ending well (for any of the parties) any time soon.