.... I'll go with Option 3, thank you. For purely legalistic reasons. You cannot turn precedent and the rules that govern armed conflict on its side by demanding that Israel give up legitimately acquired territory to a terrorist entity that cannot be trusted. That's bad precedent. How long before Italy demands the return of Istria and Germany demands the return of East Prussia and Alsace and Lorraine? How long before Japan demands the return of Okinawa? How long before Spain demands the return of Guam, Midway, the Marianas and even the Philippines (they can claim that it was not within the scope of power of the United States to give the Philippines independence). War has to mean something. Israel has been forced to fight six wars. It is time to tell the ersatz "Palestinians" that they will have to make do with Jordan (which is the least legitimate state in the Middle East) and Gaza. It is far more than they deserve.

The Americans have had enough of failures in the Middle East We have had quite enough of failures in the Whitehouse too!

Let your minds be stunned to this fact. Now, have a moment of clarity on something. YOU and I serve a Holy God, not the devil of hell from the USA kerry and his arabic minions. That they "all" have ONE intent! Destruction of Israel & the Jewish ppl. What part of this cannot your comprehend Oh Israel??? Send that devil back to the US with his wolfen tail tucked in... And Do Not apologize either.

sand of Israeli ones ? Sure,look what security they have designed for Iraq and Afghansitan after withdrawal..

,,,too small. That cuts off blood to the brain and turns a fantasist who spends Christmas hundreds of miles upriver on a tributory that does not exist after a war has gone to peace, Yes he is a fool and a putz who does not have a sense of reality and certainly not history. No wonder he has a long face. Or maybe it's the Botox seeping from his chin into his brain.

To last until a new leadership grows up on both sides, even if it takes 100 years, and sign the FINAL peace agreement. The current leadership on both sides doesn't want peace, it is obvious. But comes April 2014, I will be delighted to be proven wrong, and I will cheer Mr. Kerry when he carries out a workable peace agreement from both Israel and Palestine.

Nice article. No mention of Iran. Why?

Have you noticed that leftists don't even try to mount a rational argument for Israel to abandon Judea and Samaria. There is NO rational argument to justify this lunacy. Like Haber, they offer nothing but cowardly pathetic fear mongering. Mobster tactics.

But I'll bet Mr. Ed could.

There is a basic problem. The PA wants us to release people who kill children and then honors them when we do. They don't want peace if they did they wouldn't honor those who murder children they would want them locked up. Can anyone imagine Israel wanting freedom for Jews who murdered Arab children. Would we ever release such a person from jail. The answer is of course not, we value Arab lives and if a Jew murders and Arab child we punish the killer. When the Arabs feel the same way about those who kill Jews we will have peace.

While I don't share livni's views at all, I have a proposal: Since you would give up jordan valley, east jerusalem and most of west bank with rail line going from gaza to ramallah cutting israel in half, why not cede tel aviv. livni can join olmert in new york, merridor will get a symbolic position with the government of palestine, peres will be honarary jew citizen of palestine, and beilin will get a political appointment at hebron university. Why not dismantle israel and get the hell out as zohar suggests and return to poland. If bibi goes for kerry's proposal, israel is dead as a doorknob, totally dead,, not right away. Contrary to self assured and arrogANT KNOW IT ALL PERI, THERE WOULD NOT BE ONE SECOIND OF PEACE. HAARETZ will be coopted by Maan to the be the newline of palestine, NO MORE ISRAEL!!

so they put in their miles and put in their time and earn their salaries and both the hell out of Israel who knows the Pals won't agree on gornisht. So we gatta play their game if we stay on the 'good' side of washington. we pretend to take him seriously and he pretends to believe that he will bring peace and we play games with each other and deep down under the covers we all know it is just a game. But at least Kerry gets his hair styled here for half the price of what he pays in Washington, so everyone is happy.

..and the third option will be the result. Attack is the best defence, and Israel should start to repatriate the pals into Jordan, after sotero's nuclear bases in Iran has been destroyed with the help of the saudi's. Do not care about the leftist EU, they will soon be a complete islamic continent. Then internal wars between islamic fractions will kill millions.. China will be the most valuable country for the future with enormous potential in space, substantial control of african resources and have the option to send the USA economy straight down whenever they want. China has already financially control in oil-fields in Texas, and its Yuan will soon be dominant and traded instead of US$. Whatever Kerry does, mr sotero would have reached his goals as a war-monger with Nobel peace price, and (as always!!) his plan of being the last man standing as a HERO and Savior, will be a failure..like in Libya, Tunis, Egypt, Syria. And this could be the predictions for the year to come....

Obama and Kerry won't even try to get the Palestinians to agree to basic Israeli security issues. They won't try, because they know that it's fruitless to do so. The Islamic doctrine of "death to infidels" calls upon Muslims to kill Jews, and, consequently, anything that is a barrier to that conflicts with their religion. Obama and Kerry won't go there. And so, Obama and Kerry are trying to achieve peace by forcing Israel to agree to the basic Palestinian demands. The Muslim Brotherhood members on Obama's White House Advisory Councils are undoubtedly coaching them. In my view, Israel is confronted with the choice of accepting the conditions that Obama and Kerry force upon them, which I equate to having fought a war and lost it, or, of fighting a war to preserve itself. Israel should bear in mind what has happened in Syria, in Iraq, and in Eqypt, as a result of the foreign relations genius of Obama and Kerry. Those countries are all looking to Russia, now, for arms to preserve their self interests. Regardless of Obama's promises, and red lines, and warnings, those countries consider themselves to be better off with Russia than with the USA. Obama will preside for three more years. Those will be a very dangerous three years for Israel.

J & S = ISRAEL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...or Wilbur?

I Quote - Has Kerry lost his mind? Op-ed: US secretary of state is determined to end Mideast conflict. What if he succeeds? Comment - The Ersatz - Palestinians must give in, there is no other way. Arn.Sweden.

Only in your drug addled idiotic dreams. Israel will be there for longer than you can bear and there will be no Palestinian state until they recognize Israel as a Jewish majority state and give up the right of return. Palestine is "dead as a door knob" and Iran, Syria and Lebanon will be if they think they can defeat Israel in the coming war. Tell your Islamonazi criminal terrorist friends to start practicing kissing their A$$es goodbye!

John Kerry will succeed and a Palestinian State will be a new United Nations member next year. If Israel objects to his peace plan the United Nations will recognize The State of Palestine and US will not use its VITO power..

Your "president" has already declared the dead-born state of "palestine" to be Jew-free. So even the greatest of Israel's traitors...Peres, Olmert, Livni, Barak, and yes, Bibi...would have no place in the new state they worked so hard to create. And if the fruits of their efforts to destroy Israel would be the birth of the curse called "palestine", than let them beg forgiveness from the people they were so eager to disgrace and humiliate, while they allowed murderers to walk free.

"... Americans have had enough of failures in the Middle East and are sick and tired – as are many American Jews – of the eternal involvement in the bitter conflict." We are NOT the POLICE OF THE WORLD. We screwed up Kennedy's Viet Nam, and we've been meddling and muddling in the ME for far too long. Israelis and her Arab neighbors are the ONLY players in this game. Kerry's showboating is a prelude to his 1016 run for the White House.

and wrongfully from the then-current, resident natives. If all nation-forming was proper and just, it's likely that there would be very few countries - if any - that would not have to withdraw all the way back to where the creators of those countries came from! So, standing against REBUILDING an already-truncated Israel is no less than hypocritical.

It doesn't need Kerry or any other dreamers. Here's how: 1. Abandon all settlements; tell settlers they have housing inside the green line but no support of any kind outside it. 2. Repudiate loudly and clearly the settler dream of Greater Israel: make it clear we have no such desire and condemn the Sharon/Netanyahu agenda; use all media including YouTube etc to dramatically beg the Arabs to make peace. 3. Embark on a massive arms-buying spree; announce we have hundreds of nuclear missiles ready to go. 4. Keep the military occupation in place: tell Palestinians including Hamas they can now sign a treaty ending the 1967 war, recognising Israel, ending terror and giving them a state, or the military occupation continues for 10 years after which Gaza and the West Bank are annexed and their populations expelled. Deprived of Neville-Chamberlain-style useful idiots, and of the settlements as a pretext for 'resistance', the Arabs will have to either expose their real agenda or accept the deal. Either way, Israel wins.

All he wants is "Peace Nobel prize " Period

Starting from disengagement, from a cease fire, the peace agreement with Palestine will hold and people will stop getting killed. After a few years of quiet, there will come the time to open the border with Palestinians and to make the region a Union.