Dude, you totally stole my thunder

Since I have stumbled into this "tar-baby" I might as well throw in my two cents.

First I would like to point out that I know not much more about the current crisis than what I have read in the papers and seen on television. I am neither pro-Israel nor am I pro-Islamic/Muslim. In fact I am decidedly anti-demographic; that is to say I am against any belief system, whether it be religous, political, cultural, or gender based that causes people to forsake their own sense of decency in pursuit of a proclaimed greater good. I am also not naive enough to believe that we can count on this individualistic sense of decency to in and of itself maintain peace amongst a diverse group of societies and religions.

Eric you touched on numerous excellent points which begs the question, with a conflict as complicated and multi-layered as that found between Israel and it's Arab neighbors can a resolution truly ever be had?

I know Hezzbolah is a terrorist organization and has committed horrific acts against Israel. I am not informed enough to discuss the real or imagined reasons why many Islamic nations are anti Semitic and have such an easy time sustaining and growing terrorist organizations. Nor am I informed enough to discuss whether or not Israel is just in it's cause or equally just in it's actions.
What I do know is that when I see the images of the women and children on both sides who have been claimed by this conflict and listen to the rhetoric about how casualties are a necessity of war I take great personal offence. As I sit here typing this now meandering rant, with my six month old son asleep three feet away from me I feel outrage. How dare anyone claim that their cause is just when it "requires" the killing of a child? How dare anyone defend such actions by claiming it was the other sides fault, or an accident or required by their belief system?
I don't have any answers. Hell I don't even know what questions need asking, but I do know that so far nobody is right or just.