Tell the palestinians, a one thousand pound bomb will be dropped for every Qassam Rocket. Then drop the bomb. As far as nuclear detterance, Tell the Iranians you will nuke them if the start shooting missiles into Israel. Bombs make a great first impression. Especially if you have the balls to use them. Obviously, the Palestinian terrorists have no problem using their bombs on Jews. When will the Jews show them, the misguided use of weapons against Israel has its price? Words mean little. Good writers don't stop a rifle round traveling at 2000 feet per second. The words just annoy the terrorist, who wants to blow the Jews face out the back of his head. Actions speak louder than any good bullsh*t artist. Not to many Jews talked their way out of the concentration camps or gas chambers. Fighting back, telling your enemy that you will kill him if he attacks, those are the words that will resonate loudly. Begging for some settlement, because you don't want to be inconvenienced by a war, will eventually get your weak behind killed. You never bomb the Palestinians back after an attack. They have the advantage. It doesn't hurt soil---if you bomb it incessantly. It just blows around a bit. And the Palestinians just keep planning more attacks. The day you blow up a suicide bombers whole block---will be the day that the Palestinians tell their nutty neighbors to knock this sh*t off. That's called deterrance. How about we start using some, on the bullies, please? If it's not to much of an inconvenience.

I don't think one needs to be a Nobel Laureatte to realize the inherent truth in Aumann's words. This is a war, and pushing for "peace now" at any cost will not bring about the kind of peace we want. All roadmaps lead to Auschwitz...(or at least dar-al-Islam).

I think we could use someone like him as Prime Minister. In response to what someone else here said, I also think his words seem to be taken out of context. The idea, I think, is that if Israel continues on the suicidal course that it's been on (the one in which it appeases terrorists and neglects its own Jewish citizens) then perhaps the Satmars have a point. This is merely a rhetorical device. The Satmars, by siding with the Arabs against the Jewish State, effectively help the terrorists continue to murder Jews. This is obviously the exact opposite of what Professor Aumann is saying -- it appears he is merely suggesting that Israel should reform its ways before it is too late. This seems to me to be a wonderful idea. The Middle East is not the Middle West -- not everyone (i.e. Hamas, Fateh, Islamic Jihad, etc. etc.) is as pluralistic as we are here in the United States. The language understood by all there is that of strength and weakness. And expelling Jews from their homes and compromising with terrorists, all the while neglecting your own citizens and turning a blind eye to traitors in the Knesset -- all that is certainly perceived as weakness.

"Aumann proceeded to incorporate the game theory he developed into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying Israel’s yearning for immediate peace makes it even harder to achieve...“If we could say to our neighbors, ‘You have time? So do we. You’re sticking to your goal? So are we.’ If they understand this, peace will be attainable,” he said" This sounds more to me like Jabotinsky's "Iron Wall" Theory, where we continue to fight the Arabs and win untilo they are either vanquished or give up. This seems to be the policy Israel followed until 1993. I believe that we still have time to go back to thsi policy and save Israel. We will have to make up for lost deterrence capability, however. In my wildest dreams, I would think it might be possible that maybe Israel gives back land, so the ARabs can get full of themselves, so that Israel can REALLY kick their asses like they should have in and after '67.

The Arabs occupiers should be sent back to their homeland of Saudi Arabia anything less is suicide for the Jews!

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Good point, some population tranfers may be useful, especially smaller-scale ones. For example, the smaller Jewish settlements dotted across Palestinian territories and the interconnecting roads can't remain under Israel's control if there is to be a territorially contiguous and hence viable Palestinian state. That's a price Israel would have to pay for the resolution of this conflict (as well as for the silliness of the settlement project). However, most of the settlers live in large settlement blocs near Israel and these will most likely have to remain in place. Also, it would be reasonable if some Palestinians currently living in Arab countries could move to the future Palestinian state as long as this state can absorb them. Some Palestinians could also be allowed to return to Israel for humanitarian reasons (family reunification).