[goatsneez]

This little piece is using Mencken's famous quote in application to the Israeli-Palestine conflict reaction-solution rhetoric.

I submit that this particular problem is not in any sense complex. It is made complex (indeed, on purpose, by several actors) because of the self-proclaimed double standard in applying logic, morals and ultimately international law (the negating the very values it tries to justify). In that sense we are collectively stupid in this pretend game. Nevertheless, there is nothing unclear, unknown, or complex about it.

It is like with obesity (non-medical cases), everyone knows what shall be done, but doing it is basically impossible (still, in the IP-conflict the corruption of values is unspeakable in a way that this analogy cannot begin to cover).