Because any time it looks like some calm, one or the other side starts screwing with the other.
Which side has broken every cease-fire? Which side seems to lack the discipline to follow their own leadership's policy? - which makes it hard to make a contract, by the way, because every time over the years you make a contract with "leadership", another splinter group pops up and says "They don't speak for us!"
But you're right in one sense - this DOES go back thousands of years. One side has matured at least a little bit, and is at least *trying* to avoid doing what they did to the Midianites. The other side seems to still be in the dark ages.
You're blaming all
Hey, it's worked in a lot of American elections. Badly, but it's worked . . . .
... a blanket law that is equivalent to saying you may not publish anything the government deems sensitive unless they give you a way to know what information that is
I take it that you've never dealt with people in real government security agencies. The very existence of such a law would be deemed sensitive.
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.