When I look at the Jews and Arabs of Israel, Palestine and the Middle east, I see the Jews and Arabs like an old married couple in an arranged marriage. They didn't cause this themselves but they are honoring their parents by staying married so to speak. And what they share is a love of the Middle East and of Jerusalem and the area of Israel. This is important because most of the rest of the world doesn't share this love and for those not living in the middle east the middle east is mostly a place where you get oil to put in your car or heat your house. So the love Jews and Arabs share for the middle east is remarkable and what in the end keeps them married for better or for worse.
If one of them was exterminated by nukes or old age, what would the surviving member do with themselves with no one close enough to hate? For everyone knows the flipside of hate is love. Just look at divorced or broken up couples too upset by their loss to ever speak again. Love and Hate are only the two flipsides of a coin in the end. Wisdom is knowing this. Anything or anyone you truly hate is someone that you have feelings for in some real or twisted way.
The title's full truism is by Descartes, the French philosopher. If I remember it correctly it goes like this: "There is nothing so good that no bad may come of it and there is nothing so bad that no good may come of it."
For me, personally, this kind of philosophic thinking, led me to non-dualism and compassion for all life in the universe. Basically, non-dualism is the exact opposite of "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". Though I also understand an eye for an eye, it tends to lead to infinite revenge seeking and the end of all life on earth. And though this kind of thinking might have worked for ancient tribes on the desert it is completely counterproductive with a planet of 7 billion people on it. Imagine 7 billion people seeking infinite revenge. It is a horrible thought that only can result in the demise of all beings bodies on earth.
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