I disagree. The average residents of the region are the the good guys. It's their leaders who are hardliners who have not helped anything for 70 years. The Palestinian leaders were historically stubborn when it came to dealing with Israel and their desire to be an independent nation. They said no no no until Israel was so much more powerful they had no arm to negotiate with. Israel's leaders were sick of the Jews being the victims and aren't taking any chances. Can you blame them? Now they are hard balling the Palestinians only they have gone too far. The average Israeli just wants peace, but there can not be peace when Israel continues to intrude onto the little land that Palestinians have left. It's sad because the Palestinians didn't have a hand in the Holocaust yet they seemed to be the ones who were screwed over because of it.
The average residents of the region seem to keep falling into place behind the hardliners. The greatest failures of human civilization have always come from its leaders, but that doesn't bar the people involved from responsibility.
The Palestinians under Arafat didn't have the privilege of negotiating directly with diplomats and world organizations, nor did it have the luxury of directing their main outlet for their cause. Arafat did his own thing, and lost sight of the real goal and in the end lost more than he started with.
It isn't a personal attack to call you a hypocrite when you are in fact a hypocrite. You lecture Americans for years in D&D but then won't even explain or acknowledge problems in your own country? That's cowardly, soft and pathetic.
