Life at the edge of Gaza: religious fanaticism, boredom and inherited hatred

[DetlefK]

http://www.cracked.com/article_20923_5-bizarre-realities-life-at-edge-gaza.html

The Jews regard Israel as the land of their ancestors and therefore their birthright. Likewise, the Palestinians regard Israel as the land of their ancestors and therefore their birthright.

Occupied Palestine is dotted with tiny settlements and each one is more or less unique. Not only in terms of industry and agriculture, but also in terms of how religious the citizens are and whether they hate or like the IDF right now.

The children absorb this violence and accept it as natural. Committing genocide and killing all of "the others"? That's a good thing, because we will then finally have peace.
And for the boredom I mentioned above? Imagine teenagers living in boring little towns where there's nothing to do except hating "the others". There is a town where palestinian and jewish teenagers meet EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON for a streetfight. A security-fence separates them, so they shout insults and throw rocks at each other. EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. After a while the IDF shows up and fires some tear-gas and everybody runs away. EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

Jewish and palestinian villages lie right next to each other, so isolation is extremely impractical. Most of the time they get along peacefully. And from time to time someone ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time and gets lynched. Stuff happens.

There is enough land in Israel for Jews and for Palestinians. But nobody wants to share because everybody is too afraid of the other. And actually relocating Palestinians from land claimed by the Jews or relocating Jews from land claimed by the Palestinians would be an absolute logistical nightmare.