A lose-lose for Muslims and Jews, especially the Jews.

Such attacks demoralize a people with siege mentality; the 2:3 kill-ratio propels terror by those who surround them.

For 1,300 years a Jew and Muslim lived allied against Christians, so it was unwise of Jews to take Christian bait of a land amidst sea of hostility. English imperialists Curzon, Cromer, Balfour hating both Muslims and Jews, creating Israel was a sweet revenge.

As both communities radicalize religiously and turn a local Palestinians-Jewish fight to a wider Arab-Jewish nay Muslim-Jewish one, what chance do mere 15 million have vs 2 billion? With 1:100, how long can they last the siege?

Selling arms to both sides, military industrial complex inheritors of neocon Balfours smile all the way to the bank. It did not have to be this way. Rather than compete for an unwinnable land claim, the Jews should have put their talent at the service of oil rich Arabs as they do worldwide. They chose not to. A lament for a people.