I believe the current methods of negotiating peace between combatant states is ineffectual and incomplete. Humans are not beings of pure logic that will act according to rule and mandate. We are, more than a little, animal. The animal in us overrides rules and logics to satisfy millennia of behavioral evolution. Therefore a conflict is not over until ancient conditions are met. Only when l our animal nature is satisfied can we hope to reason with ourselves and impose order according to logics.
Many cultures have adapted to accommodate the needs of our animal nature in ways that preserve life while still resolving conflicts successfully. Unfortunately Christianity, among other religions, falsely hold Human kind as separate from animal kind and when Christianity and western culture is imposed on some cultures they will lose the very adaptations that have successfully maintained peace.
The current methods that attempt to quell violence using logic and negotiations can not satisfy the conditions required by the core of the individuals involved in a conflict. No amount of hand shaking and glad talking between politicians can quench the deep burning need for closure that has gone largely unseen by our current "civilized" society.
I believe the need for closure and satisfaction that truly ends conflict is the only true path to peace between Israel and those who have reason to hate Israel. I hold that no political solution will satisfy the needs of the people suffering middle east conflicts. I also say that our (the western nations) current and recent efforts to build or enforce Peace in this part of the world only manages to prolong bloodshed and a festering hatred until it has become a systemic infection on humanity.
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