Israeli-Palestinian_fight_to_the_death 

                                                    _{By: Lorenzo Dee Belveal}                       

Rational readers:

I have ceased trying to understand - much less, make sense of - the endless atrocities that define ongoing 'relationships' between the embattled Israelis and  Palestinians.  Increasingly it strikes me as a problem totally devoid of a rational solution. Were this not true, surely the combatants would have hit upon a format for reconciliation by now. 

Their battles vastly predate reliable history. They are rooted in biblical blood feuds, lost in antiquity, but resurrected by reincarnated, implacable warriors (read Sharon, Arafat, et al) for whom nothing less than obliteration of their opponent(s) will suffice and - perhaps - bring peace. As such, this fight to the finish is not one that can be explained to a rational mind. It can not be arbitrated. It can not be adjusted. It can not be mediated. It can ostensibly not be ended by anything short of virtual - or total - eradication of one camp or the other. Hence, the most expeditiously that end is realized, the faster blessed tranquility might be expected to come to that endlessly embattled sector of our planet. 

Theirs, ipso facto, is an engagement in which no rational individual or nation can find a sensible involvement. It is tantamount to a fight between blood-crazed dogs: The only end that will suffice is total destruction of one or the other - by any means, fair or foul, over any imaginable period of time. It will only end when there are no more opposing combatants who claim to "remember" ancient religious admonitions, and real or imagined ethnic "wrongs" that - to their respective obsessions - seem to still cry out for mortal retribution.

In view of these realities, involvement of third parties, whether individual or national, can only complicate and extend their fight to the death.

We, as private citizens or as a national entity, have nothing to gain and everything to lose by seeking to intervene in the endless struggle; this, regardless of the noble motivations involved. We can add nothing to the solution. All we can do is delay and compicate its long overdue resolution.   

The Israelis and the Palestinians are born to their eternal conflict.

They know no other mode of existence. They consider it their "holy" mandate to fight and to prevail - or to die in the effort. Thus it has been for untold generations of committed Israelis and Palestinians.

So let them do it. Intelligent interests should neither intervene, finance, seek to influence or otherwise take a hand in the mindless contest.

This confrontation has been ongoing for as long as the two entities have definitively existed. It is as old as their genetic origins. It will end when one side is no more. Then and only then will the fires of their fight to the death begin to cool.

By what flight of illogic do "outsiders" of whatever class or stripe honestly expect to materially alter the deadly, perpetual equation?  Thinking so is nothing more than a pretense, an affectation, and a gratuitous meddling in ancient affairs that are, de facto, none of the outsiders' business.

Only the respective co-religionists can find justifiable involvement in this madness.

The rest of us should strictly limit our involvement to observation - and as little of that as we can comfortably muster.

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