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I’ve just removed my first post from this blog. I made a rather lame joke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I was trying to be satirical, but now I just feel dirty. I know there are people with very strong feelings on these issues, and I respect that. I just don’t think there are any easy answers in a conflict that has been brewing for thousands of years. The weight of history, of tradition, is just so crushing to these people, and to any people involved in ethnic or religious wars. Sometimes I wish we could all just forget about the past, our collective history, our personal stories, and just meet each other for the first time again. I know it’s naive, but when history and tradition are told from so many different angles, it’s no wonder we’ll never agree.