Olmert refuses to work with Bush & Rice. Refuses to work with the Palestininan. This is just another Israeli diversion. 50 years and no solution. & Trillions of USA dollars lost for an apartheid state.
I would love to cut Israel off tomorrow. You would see a peace plan in 48 hours!
Oh by the way Israel is losing 50,000 people a year to emigration. (with no influx) That copled with their low birth rate ensures an ultimate arab victory.
Finally there is a 30 percent starvation rate amoung jews if meals4israel org is to be believe.
Let the Zionists have their pyrrhic victory from their apts in NYC

Isaiah, Dallas, TX

To Doc
Hamas extreme supporters do not want to recognize Israel and they do not "know this". You're projecting your own view onto them. Even if a general peace agreement is reached with the Palestinian Authority there will still remain a radical element that will continue with terror attacks. Hamas will not go away.

Brian, Syracuse, USA

However long it takes, if there's to be a solution to this problem, it has to be in this direction.

Father Bryan Storey , Tintagel, UK

It is important to turn the spoken word into deeds.

Mohamed Mesbah, Cairo, Egypt

I travelled through and spent time in Syria, Jordan then Israel in 1966. I spent the war in the North. I left in 1970 . I know enough to tell you that war is a horror that lasts with everyone for years. No one escapes, not the fighter pilots not the generals, not the humble farmer.
I know that both the ordinary Israeli and the ordinary Arab peasant do not hate each other and want to live in peace. If they can have peace they - the ordinary people - will live along side each other, trade, visit and talk about their kids. I watched it happen.
Every politician or attention craver should talk to the ordinary people, listen to their ideas and fashion a peace for them. It can be done!
Do NOT let the past rule the present and destroy the future.

Reginald Fryer, Seattle, WA

Even if Arabs did attack, IDF killed local innocent people to force the Arabs people to leave the area.This fact is proven beyond all doubts.

Shahid Hussain, Saint Louis, USA

Eric, I think you've said it all.

Jerremy Bass , Melbourne,

To Eric Beckerman

We'll see exactly how much the Israelis want peace by what they offer the Palestinians as a state, how much of the West Bank and Jerusalem they grab, how many of their illegal settlements they dismantle

No one in their right mind can deny Israel's existence. Even Hamas' most extremist supporters deep down know this.

But for peace to be achieved the Palestinians have to be given a fair deal. Israel must not just give them a small piece of land, a fraction of what they rightfully deserve and dress it up as 'We offered them a homeland, they rejected it'

Doc, London,

In 1947 the Arabs rejected the UN resolution creating a Palestinian state. Instead they invaded Israel and were defeated. In 1967 the Arabs swore to destroy Israel and once again invaded. Thereafter, Israel offered to negotiate. The Arab response from their Khartoum conference was " No peace, No negtioation, No Israel. Do not foget that between 1948 and 1967 Egypt occupied Gaza while Jordan occupied the W. Bank. No Palestine then either.

Today, the HAMAS Charter ( Sec 7) avows the killing of Jews and destroying the Zionist entity. When the Arabs want a Palestinian state more than they want to destroy Israel, there may be peace.

Eric Beckerman, Tampa, FL , USA