If we get involved (or continue to stay involved), we really should be much more even-handed than we have been in the past. As others have stated, this problem is thousands of years old, and it doesn't seem to be getting better with the passage of time. The Israeli state has to be recognized as having a right to exist; likewise, however, the aspirations of the Palestinian people need to be recognized. The Israelis have really beaten this Holocaust syndrome to death, milked it for whatever it's worth, taekn advantage of it, appealed to emotion - phrase it any way you wish. The Palestinians haven't exactly taken a moderate course, either, but I do think that one has to realize that there are some terrible frustrations on their part - basically, their lives are overshadowed by, and run by, the Israelis (jobs, ability to move or congregate freely, etc). We can call Arafat a terrorist (I don't dispute that), but as I think I noted in a post some months ago, Menachem Begin and his ilk, now lionized by some as Freedom Fighters for Israel's independence, were nothing but terrorists when they blew up the King David Hotel, as far as the Brits were concerned. This certainly is a thorny problem, and has, whether we like to admit it or not, been one of the significant causes of Arab terrorist activity against the U.S. It's a festering abscess that doesn't show signs of reacting to medication (or Band-Aids, as the case may be).