It’s hard not to talk about what is going on in the Middle East. The Israeli army is pounding Gaza with bombs. The pictures are chaotic. The Palestinian civilians from Gaza are trapped, trying to escape to Egypt. It is sad to see suffering and destruction on such a scale. The question is, how much suffering do the people of Palestine have to accept in order to question their own leadership? Great leaders think first before acting in order to minimize their people’s suffering. Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. have done it successfully.

By preaching the culture of war to their kids, a new generation of Hamas fighters is born every day — suggesting that this war will never end. Even the most extreme Jewish State opponent Yasser Arafat came to understand at the end of his life that there is no way they will have a military victory against their strong opponent. No matter what Hamas leaders think, no matter how much “moral support” they have from the Arab world, at the end of the day, only ordinary Palestinian civilian people pay the price for the stupidity of their own leaders. As the Bedouins of Egypt say,”The bitter heart eats its owner.”