they'd wake up to how nonsensical all of this sounds. Dying for what? Again?

While watching the Palestinian refugee camps being bombed yesterday (not really camps in the typical sense because they've been there for decades and are now buildings on top of buildings instead of tents -- or maybe this morning it's all rubble and it doesn't matter; TV seems to have forgotten to cover Lebanon this morning) I Googled away to remember what I never really knew and still don't have a firm handle on . . . all the changes of ownership of that strip of land between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

What a bolluxed up mess. And everyone so vehement that they have a stake in some right to this or that because their fantasy guy in the sky said so.

And the pols and organizations intervening to help, or not, at various times. All going along with the religious story because . . . why? . . . they have their own religious story? We are supposed to respect each other's religious stories? Bah! Not when it leads to this much carnage for this long.

If you are picking your friends and your fights based on which pew they sit in, you need to rethink your own thinking. It's all long-standing irrationality from this angle.

Nance