TradeSurplus
Russ wrote ...

Russ
You've just described virtually the entire world.

TradeSurplus
No I haven't. I've just described virtually all the great powers of the world because power is necessary for both colonization and genocide. Virtually all the great powers of the world have committed state sanctioned murder and attempted genocide. That doesn't make it right.

The fact that the brutal and evil leaderships of two factions failed to agree because of one point does not make their terrorism or their colonization right. While the evil bastards on both sides go about their business, their people on both sides suffer. The West should not give legitimacy to either side by supporting either terrorism or colonization. Aid and support should be discontinued to both sides until the leaders stop committing their destructive acts or until the people choose new leaders, i.e. until the Palestinians stop terrorist attacks on civilians and the Israelis stop the settlements. There has to be some morality in foreign policy or we might as well go back to the great power, national interest politics of the last century.