Some motivation beyond our understanding has to be at work here. Implicit in these questions are the answers to how to stop the fighting. Israel and the West have tried everything we can think of to resolve this war, short of obliterating the Palestinians. Talks don t work. Force doesn t work.
Threats don t work.
Economic sanctions don t work. These are our solutions, using our own fundamental concepts of right and wrong to solve this unsolvable puzzle. To us, the Arabs care for nothing else but continual bloodshed. At some level, there must be another rationale that works for them. I can only come back to my simplified definitions of the value of life.