I think, to a great extent, the Palestinians are as much prisoners of Islamic extremism as anyone else.
I think that there cannot, and will not, be any peaceful resolution to the problems in Israel until:
1) Islamic fundamentalism is curtailed.
2) Islamic leaders STRONGLY denounce the anti-modernity that is the primary component of fundamentalism.
3) Islamic leaders STRONGLY support the freedoms we take for granted: religious tolerance, human rights, democracy, free economies, etc.
There are still too many in the Islamic world who are preaching the "we are not to blame, someone else has done this to us", anti-modern, backward looking, message for there to be any progress in settling the differences between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Any peace would necessarily be based on tolerance for the other side. This is something that is totally against what the fundamentalists stand for and therefore, it is not likely it will be permitted.
/bruce
I think that there cannot, and will not, be any peaceful resolution to the problems in Israel until:
1) Islamic fundamentalism is curtailed.
2) Islamic leaders STRONGLY denounce the anti-modernity that is the primary component of fundamentalism.
3) Islamic leaders STRONGLY support the freedoms we take for granted: religious tolerance, human rights, democracy, free economies, etc.
There are still too many in the Islamic world who are preaching the "we are not to blame, someone else has done this to us", anti-modern, backward looking, message for there to be any progress in settling the differences between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Any peace would necessarily be based on tolerance for the other side. This is something that is totally against what the fundamentalists stand for and therefore, it is not likely it will be permitted.
/bruce