Given the difficulties of the situation, perhaps the best thing to do is attempt to disarm both sides. If they're going to fight for the next century, we can at least make sure they do it with sticks and stones and not tanks and artillery and rockets and nuclear weapons.

The best way to do that is probably to let them fire off all their ammo at each other and blockade any resupply into the area. And I'm not talking about just Israel and Gaza. I'm talking about the whole area. Everything between Turkey and Pakistan, and from Kazakhstan to Egypt. Yes, including the Saudis. No one gets any more arms. If someone starts manufacturing their own, deliver a missile to the factory.

Of course, that's just a fantasy, but a more serious approach would be to re-think who we supply arms to in the area. The tricky part is controlling who gets Russian arms. But there's a handy solution for that, too. Make sure Ukraine has enough arms to finish off Russia for a while. That leaves only Chinese arms. But I don't think they're all that big on selling their arms to others. They mainly keep them for themselves.

If no one in the region wants peace, it's up to the rest of the world to make sure their wars don't spill over into the rest of the world.

--Peter