Everybody is avoiding the main issue: there can be no peace with a divided Palestinian leadership. Nobody can negotiate with the wounded two-headed Palestinian monster. Abbas has no power, and Hamas has no desire at all for a peace treaty with the Zionists. The diplomatic game continues around the stalemate, with everybody carefully avoiding any mention of the key issue the Palestinian leadership paralysis.

the pressure, there is still no hope for peace.

It is a false assumption that all problems have solutions. This is one that has no real solution. Let us face the facts. The Arabs do not want peace with us because they are convinced that we do not belong here. We are convinced that we have every right to be here. Solution? Well, we can convince the Arabs to change their minds and attitude (not realistic). Or we can change our minds and attitude (also not realistic). Solutio?. There is none! So, in the meantime, while we have the upper hand - we win. Maybe that is the solution?

#1 and #3 - you are right on.....we hoped for peace in our lifetime... we want peace so badly, and the other side wants us to go away so badly. all they need to do is just say that we too have a right to exist here, and things will fall into place. will never happen as long as iran is pulling the strings. one tries to keep an optimistic outlook on life, but this is real dead end. let's be strong, hit back hard when they take a swipe at us, until they understand they shouldn't mess with those crazy jews....and hope that our grandchildren may see peace with our neighbors. happy thanksgiving to all.

I can't believe that Yossi Belin the great expert who brought us thousands of dead Palestinians and Israelis through the "peace process" has the hutzpah to be giving out advice.

under the rock he has been living in the past few years-the man is working for the PLO and only has arab agenda in mind-if he hasnt been tryed for treason it is only cause our judicial system is so obsurd we prosecute patriots and let loose murderers.

Failure begets failure; it rarely stands alone in such circumstances and, ultimately, the scene is set for some very stark choices, very stark indeed.. A third intifada, should it occur, would make the situation seem almost irretrievable and this may very well prove to be the case unless really radical steps are taken. To achieve any decisive result here, such steps must engage much more closely with the violence and with the tensions so prevalent within both communities. As the matter stands, it is unlikely to yield to the conventional ministrations of peace brokers, the use of military force or any other form of coercion. All these factors, like so many others, serve only to compound the problem, directing it further and further away from the slightest possibility of resolution. http://yorketowers.blogspot.com Sometimes, it can be better to grasp the nettle than live constantly in fear of its sting.