DK,

In summary all the conflict in the world is really an economic conflict and the "religious conflict" which is really an illusion in the minds of those participating in it, and it is used as a means to cover that up. When we all see it for what it is we will be able to eliminate it.

I think Israel’s intentions are to try and eliminate the Hama's leadership which may do the rest of the Palestinians a favor. However the manner in which they are doing it has too great a cost. It would be much cheaper and more humane to create economic prosperity in Gaza to remove the Hama's leadership from power. Seeing the bloodied children is very disturbing and has accelerated the timeline to pull the plug on oil and now that is going to be even more costly for all those invested in it.

The reality of the Israel Palestinian conflict is economic in several contexts. Conflict gives power to certain groups which use it to a profitable gain. Hamas has power because of the conflict.

The Palestinians are in conflict because of economic depravity. There would be none to participate in conflict is everyone had food, shelter, energy, transportation, education and a little money for travel and entertainment which means every one has a job which is the ability to create value for other economic system participants.

One the other hand we have Israel whose economic prosperity is threatened by those that do not have economic prosperity and so seek to preserve it.

And the whole time we have those profiting from the situation. I read some posts from bloggers in Gaza and they say merchants have tripled their prices because of the created scarcity of goods. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the merchants were actually members of Hamas and Hamas may be controlling the supplies into Gaza actually exhorting money from other Palestinians. That is what is happening in effect. Of course a few people are in control of “economic means” and have a monopoly on granting the license to access to it.

Then we have those dozen or so Jewish families that own and control much of industry and economy etc. in Israel and in the same way are exhorting wealth from the common Jewish people and they keep the attention of the Jewish people off that fact by using the Palestinian / Arab conflict as a distraction. Guess what we have the same deal in the Arab states we have the Sheikdoms and Fiefdoms like the Saudi Royal Family that controls the wealth and power creating economic disparity among the common Arab people. So here we have several leadership groups using the conflict to profit and keep the minds of those they subvert off of the fact they are getting reamed with a disparity creating system design through the use of external conflict as a distraction and justification for controls on the population.

Which means the leadership of the Jewish state, The Hamas, and The Arab Royalty are all really friends or mutual benefactors of the conflict who maintain their positions of power thanks to conflict the other leaders help to create, and these few are in reality are actually the common enemy of the people of all the nations.

Here again we have a few creating the worlds conflict for their benefit to the detriment of the many.

The solution is to implement collective control by the people and eliminate these families or groups and their use of centralized control to gain a disproportionate advantage in the local, regional, national and global economy.

These same groups and families can be found in every nation including the United States using division and conflict to weaken the people as a whole allowing them to take advantage of a weakened populace, who if unified would have power greater than those that at least in effect rule them, while creating the illusion of self rule or Democracy. We see the same thing in England and these groups and families are afraid the people will see through the Illusion and retaliate and therefore have put controls on the Internet and have begun to monitor the citizens so they can squash those that once realizing the game and seek to alert the others and organize them into unity to bring change to the imbalance of power that exists in both the public and private sector.

The Democracy in the world today is to a degree just an illusion. The election of Obama may have been the successful use of the small bit of Democratic Process available, only existing because it is required to create the Illusion of democracy, which may lead to the establishment of a genuine Democracy.

There are those on the planet that are responsible for passive violence which is just as ugly as aggressive violence it simply is not as obvious and the perpetrators are often far removed from those that suffer because of it.

Dear DK

It's one thing to discuss condemning Israel's action within a blog thread. It's quite another to lead, or publicize, a call to stop the action, especially in the Western world, where support for Israel is generally strong, no matter what.

Big kudos to you for your courage and uprightness. These qualities are what we need in leadership today.

And continuing to communicate new information is brilliant, and essential, and yet it's so often a point at which leadership fails. So kudos there, too, and a big hug for being one of the right people in the right place at the right time.

love, h

A man who knows he has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
· Confucius

Hello DK, Richard and Heath!

Dear DK, you are welcome and that was supposed to be "extorted" not exhorted up above.

I would exhort though that a rebuilding of Gaza be a part of the incentive plan, and an announcement to bring some hope of "rebuilding" prosperity, jobs. With everyone's cooperation and financial support build it back better, with sustainable technologies to lower the cost of living creating more wealth. I would create a competition for all the companies on the Globe to showcase their sustainable technologies and systems including things like vertical gardens, and then people from all over engineers, city planners, and government representatives would fly in to see it. Maybe it's farfetched but this isn’t, if one builds something of great value to everyone that would be threatened by violence most everyone would serve to protect it by supporting Peace and most everyone is enough.

The best way to disarm one’s enemy is not to appear as a threat. If they do not see one as a threat they will have no fear and will no longer be one’s enemy.

I suggest also that those that have, quit threatening Israel if you want to remove from power those that were empowered by your threats.

The wise do not take away weapons by force; they eliminate the fear that would lead others to possess them, if they are taken by force then perhaps one has validated their reason for having them. Unless of course they were actually using them on someone then it would make sense to disarm to protect life, yet still eliminating fear and creating security is the best way to disarm.

Based on their destructive motivations both sides will end up achieving the opposite of what they intended.

Hello Kate, yes and two mistakes doubles the repercussions.