Each side is only applying pressure to the other, and have been for a long time. Their narratives braid together now. Civilians on both sides feel it. Equally?

Each side is only applying pressure to the other, and have been for a long time. Their narratives braid together now. Civilians on both sides feel it. Equally? No. In the same way, by the same techniques? No. Do the politicians benefit from the status quo? Israel's statemenr that this is their 9/11 is unfortunately likely to be more true than they want it to be. The USA squandered all sympathy extended to it in short order by reacting the way it did, and made the world worse off. Easily that is happening already in Gaza.