Rick Perry shrugs off 1,700 deaths in Gaza: ‘War is a horrible thing’ so people die

[JDPriestly]

24. War is evil. War that lasts for over 60 years is especially evil.

Terrorism is also evil as is greed, as is bombing innocent people.

So both sides need to work very hard to, on the Palestinian side, control the hate and terrorism and on the Israeli side, the fear and the kind of retaliation that fear causes.

Both sides have to work to protect the lives of their own citizens. It would be best if they worked together.

Let's remember. The Palestinians used bombs within Israel. The Israelis built a wall. The Palestinians then shot rockets into Israel. Israel built a missile shield to deal with the rockets. The wall and the missile shield were huge investments, and the Israelis built them rather than invade Palestine for revenge.

And then the Palestinians built tunnels under and into Israel.

To circumvent Israel's peaceful responses to the Palestinian aggression, Israel built a wall and a missile defense system.

And Palestine went underground to circumvent the wall and the missile system.

That would be OK, but Palestine has been unable or unwilling to control its terrorists. The history of Palestinian terror is too long to recite here. Just Google it. You will get pages and pages of Palestinian terrorism.

Young people do not remember the history of post-WWII, the many, many refugees, many of whom came to the US. But some of whom went to Australia, Canada, South America -- everywhere in the world.

Young people do not know much about the Holocaust -- not really. They do not know how many survivors were children, how many of the survivors could never return to their homes and feel safe.

Young people read the newspaper but don't learn history in school. If you don't know history, you cannot understand current news. I see a lot of that on DU.

Those of us who are older, especially me since I have been watching the events in Palestine/Israel since 1952, know just how many acts of terrors were committed by Palestinians, how many wars were begun and lost by Palestinians and are hoping that Palestinians will finally realize that peace is in their best interest.