My only disagreement with what "Mike from Norwalk" wrote is his inclusion of the "Christian crusades" in the list of examples of "war." First, the "Crusades" were first, not "Christian," but Catholic. Second, the Muslims had started them! You never hear of this fact. The Catholics were being MURDERED one town at a time (hard to believe Muslims can do that, huh?) and the Catholics, peacefully, warned them to stop. When the Muslims refused, the Catholics had to mount a physical defensive in order to spare innocent life. The Crusades were self-defense, just the Israel "raid" on the so-called "Freedom Flotillas" were self-defense by Israel--the media twisting of the event notwithstanding. The flotilla was a deliberate Muslim set-up to cause an incident to get media attention. Israel was legally acting within the peace accords of 1994 when it was protecting the Gaza Strip from terrorist weaponry importation.