The saddest thing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that there shouldn't be one at all. They're, genetically and ethnically, the same people.

(that's just one news story. There are plenty of other stories and studies to back this up. Thank goodness for those scientists doing the Human Genome Project...)

That being said (because noone in that region or the Charles Johnsons of the world will ever accept it, you know how religion is regarding genetics), the Palestinians need their equivilent to Martin Luther King, Jr. Someone to tell them that nonviolent peaceful resistance is the way. Otherwise the world is going to lose interest, more buses will get blown up, and then more Palestinians will get curfewed into their ghettos to grow up hating Israelis. And the cycle begins anew until everyone is dead.

Peace through genetics?



And yes, I know the study in question was yanked due to political content.

and if you must know, it was this Nova program that got me interested in this.