Thank you, John Nassivera, for an erudite and useful illumination of the close relationships between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs — genetically, linguistically and biblically.
I often disagree with Nassivera's nonstarter solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, amounting to kicking the can down the road yet again. But with his most recent commentary, he truly hit a home run. The fact that these warriors are close cousins only points up the tragic stupidity of this war and of wars in general. But most wars are like that. The English War of the Roses, for example, now tastefully embalmed in period histories and decorative theater pieces, from Shakespeare to the present day, in actuality, killed tens of thousands of people in horrific ways, all because two branches of an aristocratic family wanted the dubious and doomed advantages of being kings.
