"We fight over an offense we did not give, against those who were not alive to be offended. What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy? The wall? The mosque? The Sepulchre? Who has claim? No one has claim. All have claim!
--Balian of Ibelin (Kingdom of Heaven)
This morning Israel took out Hamas' chief of staff in a precision airstrike. Israel says that the assasination was in response to recent shelling of Israeli soil out of Gaza, which was Hamas' response to recent Israeli aggressions, etc.
Not sure how much longer this thing can escalate before the region gets really hot.
Oil, btw, is up a percent on the news.
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Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
~Ludwig von Mises
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
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