Peace be upon Israel.
(from New International Version)

The Lord's people here, now and forevemore, are "those who trust in the Lord." The difficulties of the modern situation in Israel and Palestine are akin to that described in verse 3 above, more than two and a half millenia ago. With attack and counter-attack and escalating blaming and hating it becomes impossible to differentiate between wicked and righteous. Is anyone right anymore? A religion that promotes violence is not right. Arab nations that sustain a deplorable status quo to keep Israel in the hotseat are not right. Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has not been right. But everybody can justify what they do by pointing the finger of blame at someone else. A great deal of blame lies at the feet of Palestinian leaders who smashed a promising peace process by condoning and promoting renewed and escalated terrorism. As in verse 5, terrorism certainly is no solution and never can be. Even if the Palestinian cause is right -- and there are genuine inequities, partly but not altogether Israel's fault -- the cause will never be upheld by terrorist violence. What is right cannot prevail by evil means, and cannot remain right when evil is embraced. Nor will returning evil for evil, no matter how understandable, supply the peace Israel craves.