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Originally Posted by Reaves
As long as people want to take vengeance for what the last generations did it will never end. They really could take a lesson from the west on this. Germany is now respected by all who went to war and so is Japan. America and the UK have good relations even though they killed each other. You could even go back futhur and look at Franch, Holland, Spain and the UK. All nice and chummy now.
Pitty we can't just get along.
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If you go back to the days of celtic and angl-saxon tribalism there was a major problem with blood feuding that would lead to lengthy and undending wars between clans. A solution was the Wergild. It made monetary reimbursement a way to settle the score instead of killing endlessly.
So you could easily see perhaps the cultures of the Middle-East grow out of it, maybe. But then again the Celts didn't have major superpowers pulling the strings to keep them fighting for one reason or another. The natural growth of the Middle East is hampered by our own personal interests there. It isn't a universal explanation for why things are the way they are, but certainly its a component of why it persists. Israel in particular is so obtuse to responsibility for anything. The simplest acknowledgement of at least unbiased facts surrounnding that part of the world is hard to come by so getting any kind of nominal progress is... well its far off. Both sides play the game.