Every effort to quell the upstarts for 73 years has failed. It shows that taking land by force is not a good idea. It comes back to haunt you for 73 years.
"If you have to keep going to make sure, ("to restore calm" as Netanyahu has said today) so that stuff doesn't happen again, why does it keep happening again?" Democratic Congressman Andy Levin from Michigan. "There is no ultimate victory against terrorism. You have to end the ground that it grew in", he said on 17 May 2021.
All that is left is to try sharing, even land as equally as possible, and as being as nice as the 'wicked', 'nasty' Good Samaritan in the most amazing story I have ever read in Luke 10! The enemy turned out to be the true friend by being humane, compassionate and generous. And, to a complete stranger of whom we know nothing and whose race (but not that of the two passers-by!) was completely immaterial to the storyteller from Nazareth ("a self-hating Jew" say some Jews, of some of their more conciliatory compatriots).
Both lots are children of Abraham who have fallen out, big time, over a misnamed Holy Land.
Revenge is so sweet. The hostile environment lasted 800 years between Jews and Samaritans. Less than 80, so far, between the top, Judeo-Christian world and the rest of poor, heaving humanity at the bottom of the Palestinian pile.
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