Any thoughts on how this is going to all play out? last I heard Israel had taken their troops and gone home, but was still shooting rockets into Gaza.

But in the grand scheme of things does that matter? Israel has been slowly, progressively securing the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean for 70 years now. They'll eventually have more of it but it'll never matter in the long run. It's going to play out with interfaith violence, terrorism, historical and biblical justification and the wholesale death of innocents.

I have Right of Return. I could get that piece of the West Bank or whatever. And I would no more live in Israel than I would in Serbia, Lebanon, Burma or Nigeria. There are spots of the world where killing each other is just part of the culture.

Israel is an intractable problem. There's no happy ending. It is a concentrated touchstone for all the evil that went into the Holocaust, all the evil that went into the Crusades. It will never play out, it will just ebb and flow in an endless tide of blood.