I wasn't suggesting anything other than what I said. When the cost of conflict is high, people are less likely to want it. I personally don't have any strong op

I wasn't suggesting anything other than what I said. When the cost of conflict is high, people are less likely to want it. I personally don't have any strong opinions on the conflict in Palestine, especially not anything prescriptive. The one response I'll give your perspective is: I think a better way of framing it is organized vs fragmented as opposed to rational vs irrational. Israel has a stable, empowered, central authority, while Palestine does not. To call the latter simply 'irrational' ignores the fact that it isn't a single entity, and may be composed of many rational actors with differing incentives. Even a single person can act rationally at all points in time and still appear irrational over some window. The more chaotic an environment, the less rational it's constituents will appear over a given window of time or geography.