Roi ben Yehuda wrote the following article on the importance of religion in bringing peace. I agree with Roi that religion must be part of the solution.

Pope Benedict XVI thinks the Middle East could use a little more religion. Not the religion that divides – the kind he practiced when he suggested that Islam was a religion of the sword, or when he re-sanctioned an ancient Good Friday prayer which calls on God to illuminate the hearts of the Jews that they might recognize their savior Jesus Christ – but the kind that binds members of the human family to one another. (to read the article click here)