As usual, these "intellectuals" ignore reality. Just yesterday, the "great peacemaker" Abbas slipped up and was quoted in the New York Times as stating "We are going to complain that as Palestinians we have been under occupation for 63 years.” Note that he didn't say since '67, but since the establishment of the State of Israel. he's shown his hand yet again. If they claim to be under "occupation" since the State of Israel was first founded then that means they still want ALL of Israel. When will these fools start actually listening to what the 'palestinians' say and understand that this is what they truly mean and intend??

This is a huge part of the problem, these so called professors, who seem to be sending out their ideas which have no basis on reality. They refuse to teach students, but prefer brainwashing young minds to their personal radical left-wing kooky beliefs. Please, Hebrew University, Fire this professor and let her go teach in Gaza, it will be good for her to see what Israel will be if we follow her idea! She actually believes that rockets are worse than the annihilation of Israel, which is all the Palis want! They have prevented every attempt at peace and concessions only lead to new types of terrorism!

Of COURSE we want peace (what sane person does not?), but peace if it means national suicide? No thanks!

#1. You, and many other posters, are correct about the cretinouos stupidity of this article. However, you err in commenting the author embarrasses himself. Have you not noticed that nothing is stupid enough to embarrass Israeli leftists?

The are rolling out their sanctimonious professors to lecture us on how if merely ignore the barrage of rockets, suicide bombers and the scores of other war crimes being committed by the Arabs on a daily basis and then roll over and play dead for the Arabs that they really won't commit genocide. We the great unwashed masses that put our lives on the life so that these 'great thinkers' can pontificate with their superior intellect how stupid we are not see the terrorists as poor weak people 'yearning to be free'. We the unwashed masses that are taxed to death to support these sanctimonious idiots that have never had to work a day in their lives. These leftists remind me so much of the ghetto Jews that said 'if we do what the Nazis what they might let us live'. Well I for one am not one of those. We are not in a ghetto and I will not lay down and cower before the lying, thieving, murderous thugs. I will stand and fight.

The momentum is not with peace mainly for tribalistic ambitions of expansion and greater power and the hatred of islamic expansionism with its dangerous ambitions of the world califate . There are the offers of truce and quiet and they ought be taken covertly .

Unfortunately our conflict with the arab-islamic world has just begun!

big israil is U not ME

FEAR IS CARE ALSO ... OR WHAT ELSE

N0 Sir it is only one leafe //the root is the people live here and there with identity without home or home without identity

You are very wrong,Chaim, there is something stupid enough to embarrass the leftists. It is the extreme rightists who don't know they violating international law, persist in destroying the credibility of their best and only friend the US and wouldn't know how to make peace if a plan stared them in the face. This author is wrong, Israel very much wants peace. They will never get it as long as they are run by a bunch of recycled has beens, crooks and religious nuts. When both sides respect the law they can sit at a table but if Israel can't learn from Ben Gurion's legacy its a waste of time. Ben Gurion said you will only survive by giving your neighbors respect, honorable fair treatment and friendship. He was right.

So sad however, to read the talkbacks. So full of hate and empty rhetoric...

Traitor to your own people. Negotiating with Palestinians is like petting a Cobra.

Was Ben-Gurion a traitor when he said of the Palestinians"Now, if ever, we must do more than make peace with them; we must achieve collaboration and alliance on equal terms. " When Rabin said "We don't make peace with our friends" was he a traitor? When Paul Kagame of Ruanda made peace with the Hutu tribe after they had slaughtered 10% of his own Tutsi population, was he a traitor? There are hundreds of millions of Arabs surrounding Israel and a world population which is very tired of a 44 year occupation. If you keep it up, you will lose your last friend, America. It is the status quo that is petting the cobra and only the blind and the stupid can't see it.

Please, do not let the right wing Americans hijack your website. Stand steadfast against the constant criticism of those who do not want balanced opinions voiced. This is journalism at its best and more of that is needed. Openly voicing diverse opinions in a democratic setting has always been a source of strength to Israel.

just an other self hating jew (if she is a jew), who's brain turned in to jello. poor soul.....

But i'll bet a shnekel she has never negotiated for the purchase of a Cezve in the Arab market. When you go to the market to purchase a Cezve, or even the coffee to put into it, a good merchant will judge your level of desire for the item versus the uniqueness of the item. If you walk in to the merchant's store and eye a coffee pot that you let be known exactly fits the design of your antique coffee cups and you MUST have that coffee pot, it will cost $400. But had you walked in to the same shop looking for any coffee pot, that same pot would have been only $40, and when you try to walk out because the price is outrageous, its price will drop below $20 quite quickly. Transfer the market negotiations to the peace negotiations... it's the same thing. The biggest single obstacle to negotiations is Shalom Achshav, Peace NOW. When you walk in to a negotiation and your child gets excited about that wonderful toy, for each demand that the toy is wanted NOW, the price will go up. Why should it be any different when the toy is "peace"? You want peace faster? Dissolve Peace Now and build more settlements.

Written like a true leftist, undereducated, coward from California!

Most giants of the Leftist world are not undereducated at all. In fact most are over educated. Most giants of the Leftist world actually have a vast store of information within their minds. Many often have enormous personal libraries and advanced degrees. Of course HAVING the information and knowing how to USE the information are two totally different things. Back on the farm... they were referred to as very well educated idiots. In England they say "too smart by half" See also: Golan, Galia, PhD, brilliant, fool.

lobo why dont you go do a tiny bit of research and then come back... do you relay see the events as you said... please do some research... and the academics are smart you dumbass try studding a bit