It is sad, very sad that this like many other conflicts around the world are still present to this day. It all boils down to national identity, religious intolerance and luck of respect for another human being. One would think that by now, as humans we could all get along and start to embrace everyone as the same and equal. In many place around the world like Canada or USA we were able to achieve the art of living in relative harmony no matter where we came from, I wish the rest of the world would grow into it and stop killing each other. This type violence will not resolve anything. No matter who is at fault here, it is time to stop it and start living in harmony helping and supporting each other as human beings. And may be one day when we reach such level of tolerance and acceptance we will be able to actually called ourselves a civilization.

Thanks to Flickr members we get immediate (and sad) photo reports from the conflict areas like the most recent eruption in the Gaza strip: