It's amazing that more than 60 years after the creation of the State of Israel and the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict we are still more or less at the same place. The Israelis are still defending their claim to the land and the Palestinians and neighboring Arab allies are still fighting that claim. After 60 years, you would think that diplomacy, grassroots efforts and civil society would have ensured some sort of major change. Apart from the Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat negotiations that has simply not been the case.
What we see now is simply extremism on both sides not unlike, in a way, the extremization of our political parties here in the US where essentially in order to cater more to the base of their support, the parties/countries become more and more radical and reduce severely their ability to compromise which hampers all peace process. In these most recent attacks and rise of the conflict it is much pretty much certain that Israel is in the right even if their answer might be disproportionate. The states of the world and civil society cannot afford to pick a side because of politics or religion. Instead they must ensure that fair and just peace for both sides is achieved so that prosperity and peaceful existence for both sides becomes a reality as opposed to a distant possibility.
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