no bad guy. It's just power.

And Israel is doing what would be good for Israel. What's good for Israel is to increase their land for two reasons. One is it could give them a little extra buffer against attacks. But also wouldn't it be good to have a bigger country? Because in the long run, very long run, that will just all be good. So Israel is doing what is in the best interest of Israel and they have the power to do it. As soon as you start overlaying who's good or bad or who's moral, who's ethical, none of that makes any difference. The ones with the power are going to get what they want and it will be at the expense of the other side.

Now what makes it easy for the Israelis is that the Palestinians apparently have some addiction to violence as at least part of the solution. We don't know what would happen if the Palestinians suddenly came up with a Martin Luther King character who had, amazingly, I think this would be impossible, but amazingly said, all right we just want to put our case to the world and we want the whole world to watch and we're going to say what our complaints are and then we're going to say what we want and we're going to denounce all violence. But we think that when we make our case the world will back us. Maybe that would work for them. But it seems to me that the Islamic culture is more about fighting. And again I'm not going to say it's right or wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral. It just seems to be the reflex and it seems to be based on cultural impulses. And so as long as the Palestinians are willing to do a non-stop violence kind of opposition it just gives Israel a free pass. They can just say, well there it is again, we better take this country. Well there it is again, we better bomb these people and displace them. Well there it is again.

So in terms of strategy the Palestinians have picked a strategy that sort of will lose forever because it just gives the other side that has more power the free pass to use it. And so they do.

Now if Israel is doing everything that's good for Israel, that would be every country. So you could say, oh those bad people doing everything that's good for them and bad for other people. No, that's just everybody. That's everybody throughout time. Every country does what's good for their country. And again this is not supporting it and it's not cr