STOPPING RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM: It did not have to go so wrong. Israel could have and should have respected international law and 1948's Universal Declaration of Human Rights by giving the indigenous, native, non-Jewish population (Palestinians) full and equal rights in 1948.

From Mike on Facebook: "Today's beautiful #Palestinian faces and smiles come to you from the now ethnically cleansed Palestinian village of Ein Kerem (ethnically cleansed of its native inhabitants in 1948 by the #Zionist #terrorists) Circa 1937...

Memories of Palestine 1937 Ein Kerem before the Zionist war & Ethnic Cleansing of 1948.  

It did not have to go so wrong. Israel could have and should have respected international law and 1948's United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights by giving the indigenous, native, non-Jewish population (Palestinians) full and equal rights in 1948.

Stopping Religious Extremism begins with refusing to idolize, excuse or fund any country or group that abuses religion in order to gain political power & financial gain by discriminating against and oppressing "others."