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I guess your viewpoint on that varies entirely based on your preferred time period, and my responses vary based on how realistic or honest I believe the response is.

I'm not sure there is a win-win solution, and I think there are sizeable elements on both sides that don't want one, but the current approach absolutely won't lead to one.

My preference is for minimising the suffering of children.

At present the long run situation seems to be that one group of people (who - whether you like it or not - were displaced from their land) suffer continuous stress and roughly 50 times the death and injury rates than the other group of people who live mostly normal lives with the threat of terror attacks.

Entertaining the idea that those people are going become less extreme under these conditions seems rather unlikely.

In Northern Ireland the numbers killed on both sides (including IRA terror attacks within Britain) were a dramatically closer ratio.

I think it is pretty much impossible to achieve anything politically when the side without power is asked to trust the side with power when it sees little restraint.



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