Israel’s started pulling out of the Gaza Strip, leading to some pretty ugly clashes.

It’s hard not to have mixed feelings about this. People are being forcefully removed from their homes, which is hardly a happy event to witness. On the other hand, the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank is wrong and this has to be done if there is any hope of ending the violence in that region.

And of course, who can forget that this conflict is essentially a struggle over religious homeland. These two groups are killing each other over ridiculous myths involving child-raping prophets and genocidal gods. There’s nothing more frustrating than watching two groups sacrifice rational thought to kill each other because they think some invisible sky fairy gave them some barren piece of dirt first.