> It's a special kind of hubris to believe that despite over a thousand years of conflict in the region, The recent conflict in Israel/Palestine dates from the

> It's a special kind of hubris to believe that despite over a thousand years of conflict in the region, The recent conflict in Israel/Palestine dates from the early 1900s, with a big acceleration around 1946-48. Prior to that, the last longterm conflict in the region was over 500 years beforehand, in the Crusades. But yeah, I agree that it's big hubris for some relatively ignorant and pampered American kids to believe they can solve it, or even properly understand it.