> It was always Israel and the Jews themselves were forcibly expelled in
> great numbers from there by the Romans a few thousand years ago.
>
> It is a sad repeating cycle of hate.

Sad indeed. I still think it was no justification to displace or treat 
people in the way it happened in the 20th century, nothing in real or 
mythical history can justify that. And I'm not just talking about Israel and 
Palestinians here...

> It's a real shame that people (on all sides) can't get along. After
> all it is a fact that the Israelis and Palestinians are closer to each
> other genetically then either is to the Arabs of Arabia or to
> Europeans.

Well, they are Semites. And Muslim and Christian Arab communities got along 
well with Jewish communities in the Middle-East before the creation of 
Israel too, in the Ottoman Empire and after. I know people from Jewish 
Lebanese families ( Ben 'Ayoun etc), Jewish Syrian. Just ask the elders, be 
they Muslim Christian or Jewish of how it was. This disappeared with the 
creation of Israel, the rise of Arab nationalism and many other factors.
But it still doesn't change anything in the fact that the Arab peoples of 
Palestine were displaced, spoiled, and forced to live in an apartheid like 
society afterwards by the new arrivers.

Now it's very difficult to get along, indeed, but I hope to see things 
evolve before I'm old and grey.