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The New Year
Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 12:04 AM

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. - Colman McCarthy

Seriously. Can you just look at that?


Sometimes I wonder if there's ever going to be peace in the Middle East, or in this case specifically, peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. I mean, to be honest, I'm not completely informed about what's going on there—well since there's so much happening in just a matter of days or some infinitesimal timeframe—but if stuff like... that keeps happening, well, then I guess there really isn't going to be peace.

I know I'm just sixteen years old, naive and ignorant as some people might say, but considering how long the Israeli/Palestinian hostilities—although that word isn't really sufficient for what's happened, is it?—have been going on, I don't think either side is going to back down. They're not going to back down (possibly, although God forbid) until their enemy is completely annihilated, until they've acquired what they consider their victory. Plus, I don't think any third party's attempt to call for peace or any ceasefire is going to sway anyone. The most they can do is just delay the problem—and that just gives people more time to plan things.

As much as I hate the cynicism, maybe there isn't going to be any peace in the Middle East anymore (though was there, ever?). In short, maybe all that will be left is war, or either enemy.