The problem is not of Bibi alone.When Israrelii's find it would be more advantageous to find a solution, there would be a solution, out of necessity. Thanks for the article. Fouad Abdel Nour

It's like Jews saying there would be a solution if Palestinians agreed to disappear. How would Palestinians like that solution? Palestinians make any peace solution impossible and then cry to everybody that there is no peace.

Oh, go renew your subscription to the National Enquirer. You wouldn't recognize legitimate scholarship if it got up and bit you on your ass.

It is deplorable -to say the least- that the writer, in tune with all our "arab friends" never mention the up rooted jewish communities from the arab countries. My spouse was born in Damascus, her family, well to do in real estate and commerce, had to leave in the middle of the night, leaving everything there. Let us talk about these people and their losses. VERY ONE SIDED! almost shameful in omitting these facts.

Israelis jews are living in a mostly secular western liberal planet.Palestinians are living in a mostly religious oppressive patriarchal machist planet.The two planets are thousands years apart despite being so close physically. There are no bridges. Palestinians will never ever accept jewish existence .All peace agreements with them are mere tricks to get a better fighting position.So either we israelis flinch, pack up and leave or the other side accept its defeat .Now the more we give up during this silly 20 years-om stupid Oslo process the more the other side will clinch to their hope of wiping us out.Let's say that the military battlefield has been replaced with the demographic battlefield.The fertility rate of jewish woman is at 3 the palestinian fertility is at 4 .Let's see who will won in 40 years from now.

Sam, everything in the world is not Black or White. Just as about 30% of the Jews in Israel reject the Two State Solution, so too a minority of Palestinians want all the land. We no longer live with the three no's of the Khatoum Conference 1967. For the past decade Saudi Arabia has been leading the Arab states in an effort to achieve Peace with Israel via the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The word "Hashem" is used as mentioned by # 30 to represent God (As far as I am concerned he is not only ours.) The word hashem in Hebrew means "the name" and is used by religious Jews in order to keep the holiness of the word God.

In the first few years following a Peace Agreement and establishment of a Palestinian state,there may be sporadic terror attacks, as happen now in Europe and USA (I believe no more than 3-4 years) Normal relaitions will be established with the vast majority of Arab and Muslim States. Israel will have to resettle about 100,000 Jews who will return to live within the new and permanent borders of Israel. (In 1960 one and a half million French were returned from Algeria) The demografic danger of one state between the sea and Jordan will have disappeared. In the long term Israel will become a normal country. The high cost of having a military which receives about half of the GNP will slowly be cut until after about two decades it wll resemble the % in other OECD countries. At present there is an enormous brain - drain of academics because there is no money for research and Israeli universities cannot offer employment to many brilliant people. This situation will also improve, together with that in schools as more and more funds become available. Palestinians will be free to work in Israel, and they can replace many of those from China, Turkey. Thailand and numerous East European countries. At present there is an enormous amount of "Islamic Terror" in many parts of the world. As a result of a Peace Agreement in the ME, I forsee a gradual reduction of attacks by Muslims against non Muslims. Israel will no longer be the "whipping boy" of the UN and will become a normal UN member, sitting on committees and councils and contributing our share to the World body.

#38 Stan. Your "reasoning" is more of the same leftist idiocy behind Israel's disastrous retreat from Gaza. You can still watch idiotic leftists, like yourself, on video telling Israel how all would be great after Israel leaves Gaza. Your "reasoning" is more of the same leftist idiocy which people like you spouted just six months ago when urging Israel to flee the Golan!! Judea and Samaria are forever. Judea and Samaria now how almost 700,000 Jews. Roughly 20% more than the Jewish population of all Israel in 1948. And a much more powerful community with the support of almost all of Israel and Israel's friends. Stan, your ideas are stupid, a complete failure and almost nobody in Israel is listening to you. This tiny land is ours. Israel is not going to cede our ancestral heartland and become a 9 mile wide concentration camp to please leftist lunatics.

First, the Balfour Declaration states that the creation of a Jewish homeland was sublect to limitations which precluded it from becoming a purely Jewish state: " it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." Second, the San Remo agreement and subsequent Mandate separated the land east of the Jordan River from the land covered by the Balfour Declaration. Third, what would become Jordan was created with the approval of the League of Nations only months after the Mandate was passed. Fourth an lastly, all of this was done long before Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the start of WWII. Butseriously, with errors like these how can you expect anyone to take you seriously? Not that anything written here about the past really matters --what matters are the negotiations now taking place between the PA and Israel about our future.

Israel was not reborn after 2,000 years to stake her future on talks with genocidal terrorists. Abbas is a Holocaust denying mass murderer. Talks with the P.A. are an empty gesture by Bibi to Obama. The talks are only taking place because Bibi lacks the courage to give Obama a straight "NO". However, Israel will soon have a P.M. who has no such problem. Israel is not going to submit to any disastrous plan cooked up with the P.A. Count on it!

let your presuppositions and wishful thinking blind you to the possibility that the negotiations will end with Israel's recognition of the State of Palestine and withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Bibi is right when he states that the settlement policy is not the reason for the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israel. But Bibi also knows or should know that the settlement policy IS the reason for Israel's conflict with the rest of the non-Arab, non-Moslem world. And in that context, the current negotiations are anything but "meaningless."

Besides mentioning (3 times) "leftist idiocy" you have nothing new to add. Don't you find it problematic that Hamas, and Israelis like you want the same solution to the conflict? One democratic state between the sea and Jordan. You and the Right wing extremists wrongfully believe that you can dictate to the world who can and who cannot be citizens in such a state. Prof. Arnon Sofer who is most certainly not a Leftist, has said many times that a separation from the Palestinians is necessary to ensure the future of Israel. Do you really believe that it is possible to expel 3 million Palestinians from their homes, or leave them there as 2nd class citizens? Wake up! South Africa is creeping up on you.