I don't like the idea of some third-world country doing its best to get us into a war with another country. If the US has to attack Iranian sites it should be for our OWN reasons and NOT for the interests of Mr. Netanyahu's political career. Israel's lack of desire to compromise and always crying wolf seems to be one constant in America's inability to maintain a stable relationship with most of the Middle East. I can hardly wait 'til we find a replacement for oil as our primary transportation energy source. Once we move away from petroleum there will be NO reason to be in that region except maybe to sell THEM water and food.

One day the whole world will grow up together and be on the same planet...

Thanks Carl. It felt great to come home after a long day and read your comment.
I don't follow any of the dietary laws of fasting on Yom Kippur but I did spend the day in reflection on my actions over the last year...

Based on the comment you left of Rabbi Sacks I will spend the rest of the night thinking about my anger towards other people who did me wrong this year, and try to understand the part I played in it all...

If Israel was serious about anything approaching peace, it would cease in its pretense of perpetual victimhood while refusing human rights to its non-Jewish citizens. One state is plenty, if all are allowed to vote. You can't go from victim to perpetrator and claim the higher ground.

larry, thats a great question... on many occasions i have said, peace will always be fleeting, as long as we only see what others do to us, never giving a thought to what we are doing to others... lord rabbi sacks, said, ''until we learn of the pain of our enemies, only then could peace be possible''... when we find faults in others, are they not often our own?... compromise is a must have ingredient in making peace... i wish you, mom and family a long peaceful life...

As a thirteen year old boy I lived in Israel as a new immigrant. A month after arriving, The Yom Kippur war started. Two of the older guys who I had been playing basketball with never came home from the war.

My mother who survived World War Two in hiding, refused to go to the bomb shelter...The stress of the War returned us to the States two years later.

Here's my big question: How do we all break the war cycles and the negativity involved surrounding old situations? In other words,how do we make history not repeat itself? And in the history of man, what are examples of man learning lessons and not repeating the same mistakes?

In the end, all I can do is look at my own mistakes on this day of atonement.