I will be the first to shit on the World of religion if only that would make things better. Religion is an "extra" not the answer.
For those that think that religion is the be all end all of ending pain and so, then remember christianity made more pain then Islam can ever dream of, especially to the Jews.
We literally have pictures of people burning black people by not a person, not a random group, by a town: if we were to ask those people, there is no doubt that they would describe themselves as not only good chistians, but good people.
This was but less then 2 hundreds ears ago, while Islam is by creation at least 500 years younger then Jessus. If as christians we acted as monkeys and killers and horrible, then should Islam not the the same right to be just as right and just as stupid?
The reason I am making this post is because I've been told a lot of anti Islam points over the last few days; and while it's true that religion is a Poisson, I do not think you can call the BS of Islam if you don't also call the BS of Judaism or Christianity.
I've seen people that are pro Israel, as am I, that begin the argument with the "exodus from Egipt" There is no efing evidence for that. None. At all. There is no evidence, as far as I can find, no more then there is of Palestine before the Roman Empire. Most of the people that think to themselves as Palestinians are likely to be Egyptians or Syrians (this is because of massive migration during the 19th and 20th century).
With the post above I've managed to f off virtually everyone, by history.
The main point I think is that regardless of history, the most important thing is the present. And the present is that both the Jews and the Palestinians, no matter of the origins, deserve a place to leave. And that is what I think is the rational way of judging things. The past tells us things about nothing but the past; it is the present that tells us what the future shuld be and how we make it.