A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure heart disease cancer and other health-related illnesses.
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.