Gaza under Israel’s inhuman, barbaric and illegal siege

The Middle East has been a problem all my life. People have been trying to resolve this situation since the state of Israel was founded.

The most pressing dilemmas in the Israel/Palestine area are a too large human population and too little water. These problems will not improve in the near future.

The United States took on the role of Israel's protector-in-chief. While few would openly tackle this assumed role, I suspect that many people from all over the political spectrum question the validity of the state of Israel but given the horrific background to its founding, such people find themselves unable to speak out.

Certainly, whether one considers that two or three generations have risen since Israel's founding, the Jewish people there can not, as Helen Thomas so baldly suggested, return to Europe. The Israelis are not longer Europeans.

The divisions both between the Palestinians and the Israelis are deep. However, if one has spoken to Palestinians or Israelis or to visitors to the area of either Jewish or Arabic descent, one hears that there are other fissures. European descended JEws do not get along with native Jews. Both Arabs and Jews exhibit a wide range of political opinions as do the peoples of every nationstate on earth.