[Avgustslim]

You have a region where three major religions all claim that they were given the land by divine right, all have holy sites in the area ( often for the same event in their religious history) and all three religions basically hate each other and claim that they are acting in legitimate self defence.

(I know that in Middle East violence the Christians are only bit players but there are there and have participated in the violence.)

The ironic thing is that all three religions not only share the same roots but claim to have a belief in peace and coexistence with other religions.

I do not think that there will ever be peace in the region as the elites of these groups have too much invested in a culture of hatred and retaliation.

there are a few options for full and lasting peace in the mid east.


A) the entire rest of the world (and i mean EVERYBODY) comes in, decides who's "right", tells everybody else to sit down and shut the fuck up or get your throat cut. NOTE: eggs will be broken here.
After the dust settles the only ones left will be so terrified that they'll do whatever you say and be nice and peace loving.
This is not really a great solution.
B) somehow change hundreds of years of ingrained "he doesn't believe exactly what I believe so I must kill him for GOD" culture/thoughts/beliefs into "he doesn't believe exactly what I believe and I don't like that, but I'm not going to go around willy nilly blowing things up and shooting people that look funny". Which is going to be impossible, wihthout lots of violence and rights violations.
C) round everyone up, put them on opposite sides of the region, put all the guns in the middle and let them go at land grab style. Deal with whoever's left.

other than that I just don't see real peace happening in such a historically war torn area as the Mid East.