"Also, remember that one man's terrorist is another's liberator. You are quick to say you would volunteer to go fight "terrorists" but you do not understand what the "terrorist" is protesting. Also, the terrorist sees you as a opressor and a terrorist without understanding your concerns for safety and freedom."
http://jewishworldreview.com/0503/te...003_05_18.php3
Do you consider this protesting?
Also, the region is not historically all muslim at all. It happened to have been controlled by the Ottomans for the last 800 years- but there was always a Jewish presence in the land. I also disagree with your contention that it is ego that keeps peace from being made- I don't think the Israeli have demonstrated themselves to be acting on emotion. They have been trying to defend their citizens as best they can. Keep in mind that any day, if Palestinian terror were to stop there would be peace. It is in their hands, and it isn't fair to "blame both sides equally"- while finger pointing, as you said, is often futile, this does not mean that responsibility should not be accepted for the things the parties really are responsible for.
There is no legitimate reason that there can't be one, tiny non-arab country in that part of the world. If coexistence is possible, then it should be there, I don't think the world should accept racism, xenophobia and hatred in the arab world as legitimate. It is a result of the backwards regimes controlling these countries, the total lack of economic development (though the leaders get rich on oil) and the controlled societies. Bush is very smart to have suggested a free trade zone in the Middle East- what the region needs is modernization, not concessions. The fundamentalist Islam that most terrorists practice is a war religion, in which concessions are seen as weakness. That's reality folks. There is no reason that Arabs/Muslims/Palestinians shouldn't be held to the same human and moral standards as the rest of the world. To expect morally less of people because of their ethnicity is racism.