It's a pity this all happens the way it happens.
I have to agree with the original poster that it's ridiculous how the media presents its news, as if we are supposed to be for Israel and not for the Palistines.
Secondly I'd like to say that I disagree on the fact that mankind is ever increasing moral standards.
It's just so not true. (examples, compare Roman Empire to Medieval Times, or just the fact how money rules the world nowadays and is usually the (biggest) reason why wars are started)
Anyway,
It's the jews that came to this region, claimed the land theirs, and started to wipe the palestines as much as possible.
Seems like the Israeli's didn't learn anything from the Holocaust.
Fact is, there have been made several attempts by several countries/institutes including the palestinians to come to peace by dividing the ground in certain ways, where Israel would get the far bigger share of the region. Yet, Israel is too greedy and rejected all those plans.
The USA supports Israel, probably because Israel is the only country in the region that is 'big friends' with the USA (and Israel likes the USA for obvious reasons). We all know how the USA likes to do missionary work for capitalism-> anti-communism, freedom and other things.
I think the USA is pretty much supporting Israel big time because this way they can do their 'missionary work' in the region against Islamic countries.
We can only hope Israel makes a really big mistake, like Iraq did when it invaded Quwait, that would drop the support of the USA (and other western countries), which would be of benefit for the palestinians. I just don't see this happening soon anyway.
Although we are talking about this conflict, there are other conflicts in the world that never received this much attention, which have known far more casualties as this conflict.
Anyway, this world is already lost. It's funny how nations are bickering over pieces of land, when there will be much much greater problems in the close future.
There will be a real problem in about 50 years, when we used up all organic fuels, and the world population will be around 9 billion people. If we haven't found alternative ways of fuels such as nuclear fusion, I'll tell you that billions of people will die because of famine, or otherwise world war 3, or a combination of both.
Mankind fails, big time!