Kudos, Mr.Jack Stone.

Abbas refused to move a millimeter from his position

the other one being Jordan

Just ask those Christians living in Egypt how they like living "side by side" with Muslims...

but your ilk seems perfectly comfortable in legalizing war crimes and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their property in Judea/Samaria, parts of Jerusalem and Gaza. Most of the reason for the continued conflict is because of foreigners like you with an ulterior agenda, and your ignorance of such crimes at the hands of Arabs. If Israel really wanted to push Intl law, you'd find a good portion of the West Bank included in Israel and a lot of "Palestinians" who were really Arabs that arrived illegally between 1949-1967 to occupied territory, being carted back to Jordan, per Intl Law.

They have to foot the bill, not only in monetary terms, but deal with the contempt the rest of the world now has for all Israelis, their colonialism and land theft.

True we are waiting for Desal Water Supplies to kick in to serve Southern Industry and Agriculture and once that begins to happen..we will see a new surge of progress and development But we also need to have the transport infrastructure in place. The Trans Israel Central North South Railway via Beersheba East West Railway from Dimona via Beersheba to Ashkelon and Ashdod And of course - The BIA Beersheba International Airport In this day and age we can hardly expect International Businesses serving International Markets to locate in the Beersheba Ashkelon Ashdod Triangle without easy access to an Airport We will need an Airport not only for passengers but increasing amounts of agricultural and industrial freight..and why send by road all the way to TA?