Dialogue.
Boy, I leave this board for one morning...
Good post. A comment:
We already know why we are hated. It has nothing to do with Israel or Palestine. There are many people on this planet who simply cannot live in the same world with Westernized culture: economic freedom and its resulting wealth, political freedom and its resulting freedom of thought, religious freedom, and its resulting secular government.
Nothing we do for them, nothing we give them, nothing we refrain from doing, will change this attitude.
Now that we know that they demand our extinction, and will accept nothing less, now what? "Understanding" that there is someone who cannot be at peace until you are dead doesn't help much. I'm open for suggestions.