Recently, South Africa's Miss South Africa was barred from attending a beauty pageant in Israel because South Africa's ANC government believes Israel is an " Apartheid state ". I'm a believer in solving a problem then moving on & not wading in a problem for longer than is necessary. In any case, I believe simple logic should apply over religion in cases like these because if religion were to hold more sway in this Israeli versus Palestine conflict, this conflict could go on forever or until one side, eventually, wins. By then, a lot of people would have lost their lives over this "holy land". I believe religion itself was based on commonsense more than divine instructions. Muslims & Jews don't eat pigs because before modern day technology & medicine, eating a pig could get you nasty diseases & parasites; "Thou shalt not lie" was simply because lies are naturally bad (even for atheists) & have bad outcomes most of the ...