Casual Commentary: Palestine, Posturing, and Politics

My view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict can be summed up very succinctly with one catch phrase:

"Two wrongs do not make a right."

The arguments on both sides of the division come down to two things, a sense of entitlement, as to what each side is owed, and a sense that each side is in dire and immediate danger from their opponents in the other nation. The irony is that these two sets of feelings cycle and reinforce each other. The sense of entitlement each side has, and the commentaries to that effect are used by the other side to justify why they must continue their struggle, which only serves to fuel their opponent's paranoia that they are an immediate and unending threat.