Good and courageous article as well as very timely.

I’ld like to note the following:

- There is the surface rationalizations which was part of your presentation and there is the underlying power structures. Occupied Palestine is a US satellite because, as you pointed out, it cannot survive without the US. One could more precisely describe occupied Palestine as an arm of US imperialism. As such, everyone, both oppressor and oppressed, are victims of that system.

- The hate created on both sides is very real and very intense. It is due to the “us versus them” mentality which is unfortunately intrinsic to how humans think. The hate has also been consolidated by historic action and promoted in the education of the young on both sides. In this case, this partitioning is based on or rationalized by religion which is responsible for so much human suffering throughout history.

- As long as the US views the ‘zionist entity’ as its imperial arm, a solution would be very difficult to reach. That is because the US is extremely powerful, and it uses its economic and political might to keep its tool going.

- In my opinion, the only solution is a “One State Solution”. Everyone is guaranteed equal rights but selective support. This selective support should be unconditional and ‘background-blind’ and targeted/selected to allow every citizen to live in dignity. Most importantly, the educational system must be unified (no religious schools) and must enshrine the concept of equal worth of all human beings and, at least overtly, that mutual respect is paramount (something like the Japanese system of manners). Needless to say, de-segregation is a must. Children of the victims and the oppressors must play together and grow together to be able to know and feel to their core the humanity of each other. Finally, it must be made illegal for anyone to teach children any religion until they are at least say 10 years old. Any earlier than that is pure, tragic brainwashing.