Tim pointed at a piece listing immoral solutions for Gaza, a piece which nicely proves that finding a good solution is impossible, and finding the best of the bad solutions often seems equally impossible.
I’m sure I’m not the only person flabbergasted by the whole Israel/Lebanon/Palestine mess, and I’ve read a few books trying to make some sense of it. The only one I wholeheartedly recommend is Thomas Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem. The book is old; it was first published in 1989, but it is (unfortunately) still relevant in that none of the problems it describes have been solved. Many of the people are no longer in power, or no longer on this earth, but the problems they didn’t manage to solve are still here, still affecting the lives of those who live in that part of this world.
I’m not going to try to summarize the book; there are lots of reviews out there. Suffice to say that if you don’t know much about the Middle East, but do want to know something about why people disagree so violently and why a solution still seems so heartbreakingly out of reach, get this book and read it. You may disagree with lots of it, you may find characters described within it worthy of respect or you may find them despicable. I learned a lot about some of the fault-lines within Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine societies, and the horrible consequences that have come of well-meaning actions.