Lisa, I'm confident Israeli Blogger has good intentions, but this symetry he tries to present in his 3rd option is, I think, just shallow relativism. It's enough to note the whole story stemmed from a documentary on Israel's government operated TV channel, claiming Israeli soldiers commited a warcrime against Egyptian soldiers. Can anyone seriously suggest an Egyptian channel would air a documentary charging Egyptian military with warcrimes against Israelis? How about "Israelis are humans and Egyptians are humans and humans can love or you can - and it's not so hard, really - teach them to hate." Here's a sample of how it's done: http://www.memri.org/antisemitism.html I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Egyptians. They are as good or bad as you and me - and we'd have similar world views if our media would look like that.