News To Me...

I entered this class late and this will be my first blog post.  So far in the early going, what I have gathered is that the recent violence between Palestinians and Israeli's is not brand new.  This fighting has been going on for tons of years!  It seems that there have always been competing factions in the middle east, constantly squaring off with each other to improve and expand their empires and take land from others.  The problems that are occurring in the middle east today have roots directly to the past.  Once again, this fighting has been going on for so many years, it now makes more sense to me why Palestinians and Israeli's can't agree with each other and reach a peace.