pathetic?

I wrote about how pathetic i thought people were about quantifying their humanity, but today i have to admit i was proven wrong.
The protestors that i saw today did nothing like that, instead they decided to sit either side of a gate with signs, and look angry.
Both sides of this argument were arguing for peace, but they are not campaigning for peace. Both sides are using the word 'peace' as a blanket expression for 'our objectives'.
The Israelis want peace in terms of 'stop firing crap at us' and the Palestinians want peace in terms of 'stop bombing us (but we wont stop doing the same)'. Now this is ridiculous, not just in terms of pathetic narrow minded people campaigning not out of thought and conscious objection but because all they are doing is escalating a situation which needs no escalating.
Will anybody from either protest group be friends now in Birmingham, thousands of miles away fromt the conflict? HELL NO. This is why it is ridiculous, if you are so fucking offended by the actions of a government why not go to Israel and protest, rather than on a manicured lawn at a well respected university. Pricks.