Words can and do mean a lot, as are agreements written in them, regularly dismissed with the flourish of a pen.
If words were rain, the middle east would be busy building arks, and getting ready for the great flood that must surely follow.
The time for endless words and their endless interpretations are over!
The words we won't, must be followed with we must!
We simply do not have the luxury of any more time wasting, and or, waiting for sectarian violence to inflame the entire Middle East.
If Iran joins the fray in Iraq, just how long does anyone expect, Saudi, Turkey and Egypt, will remain on the sidelines?
And with the increasing involvement, of various Sunni nations, expanding a conflict, that has only one possible outcome.
A world war, as the Suez and oil supplies are increasingly threatened; and one where out of simple self interest, Israel must chose sides!.
The Israelis are fools, who could have negotiated a peaceful lasting twin state solution, decades ago, if only there hadn't been typical Shylock intransigence, demanding their pound of owed to them, flesh, [spoils of war,] or if you will, additional territory!
Entirely unproven words on crumbling ancient parchment, patently refuted by emerging archaeological evidence, proves nothing, save their claims that God gave their forbears some land, are among a list, of increasingly fanciful fairy tales!
Or "story telling" is more than tradition, in those parts of a disputed world!?
Time to bury the hatchet, preferably not in the backs of each others heads, and just get on with it!
Rhrosty.

Well, a certain lobby here at home might be reveling in this...

I digress. Abbott and friends might like to observe a corresponding relation between a rise in anti-Semitism in France and a growing Muslim population. A word can mean a lot in the Middle-East? Well, the word can spread to the respective factions established in Australia. 

Outremer has always been disputed; we've just seen another fool do his bit to make it all the more problematic.

Australia always was in Israel's camp, Graham Cook.

We were never in the camp of the Muslims, who have hijacked western planes, and carried out numerous acts of terrorism. And the more they do that, Graham, the more we support Israel and hate the Muslims.

But people like you just love to be contrarians. Whatever most people think, you take the opposite view to show how "intelligent" you are. That is because you have this potty idea that smart people always oppose the opinions of the majority. So you go into bat for a failed religion who hates every freedom that you love, and who wants to destroy everything you support, and you can't see any problem with that?

Every single Muslim country which is not floating on an ocean of oil, or who does not have a bunch of Chinese running the economy, is an economic basket case. Israel is the only middle eastern nation even resembling a democracy and it's wealth is entirely a product of it's own people's high intelligence. But you hate the Israelis because they are not perfect, while studiously ignoring the anarchy that surrounds them in every Muslim country.

All the major religions on the planet bar Islam gets along with each other fairly well. But every one of these religions has a problem with Islam. Nobody lives in peace with Islam because the problem is Islam, stupid. The Muslims are becoming the most despised people on this planet and if want us to feel sorry for them, and to support them on anything, then you are right out of luck.

Lego ... you are uninformed or just plain ignorant in your racist rants towards Islam. Israel has become the rogue state (with no complete borders of its own) of the world in war crimes, human rights abuses, stealing of Palestinian land and resources, ethnic cleansing and apparthied.
Zionism runs Israel, which is not a religion but an ideology, a ruthless racist ideology which continues to shock the world. Under international law, (can you even read or understand international law?)everything Israel does beyond the 67 borders is illegal, as recognised by all other countries of the UN!

The illegal settlers over the green line of 1967 continue to beat, kill, burn down olive trees, and a range of other abuses, even committed against school children on their way to school, who have to be escorted by the IOF to protect them from the settlers. Fundamentalism in Israel and the occupied territories is reaching a par with say, the Islamic fundamentalists.
I have spent time in the Middle East and as a non believer was treated with kindness and respect. Israel however does not allow differing views and you can be refused entry or put through the most humiliating and frightening experience upon entry at their airport.
Palestine cannot function economically when there are so many barriers imposed by the fundamentalist land of Israel. Gaza is known as the largest open air prison in the world. Its children are often killed or kidnapped and kept in Israeli prisons without charge, subjected to threats, beatings and torture to become information gatherers for Israel. and what about the apparthied wall that cuts some Palestinian farmers of being able to farm their lands.
Muslims are not the most despised religion in the world, Judaism is and thats a fact. I am of the mind that we should be keeping a close watch on the Jewish lobbiests and groups in Australia and their impact on our federal laws and politicians. You Lego are so so wrong and extremely ignorant of the facts, and it seems a racist person by nature, here only to give disinformation.

Janine,
if your aim was to try & convince sane people that the Isaelis are worse than the Palestinians then you're wasting your time on the key board.

A number of seemingly impassable problems are at play here.

First both the Jews and the Muslims are extremely self-centred, self-important and supremacist thinking cultures. That is they are both very racist and elitist.

Just because the Jews suffered under the Nazis does not negate te very possibility that the Jews can still be racist and self-important race that believes themselves superior to all others. Similarly just because many Muslim nations around the Israeli area are poorer than the Jews in global circles does not mean the Muslims are definitely just victims but I think they also are very, very racist.

To make the mix more explosive is how both the Jews and Muslims have strong historical and religious connections to the areas in question.

I think personally religion needs to be told to be not important, maybe historical ties to certain regions can remain.

However it is not just the wealthy Zionists who are making the resolution impossible as many claim but in some ways the muslim world as a collective is to blame for the fear that Israel feels about being seure amongst those that are blood thirsty for them.

Muslims need to admit and the Left of the west must not help them ignore the issues, that the Arab coalitions DID openly express they desired the utter annihilation of all Jews before the 1967 war in which Israel beat them and redrew the borders they claim as buffers for security.

The left cannot allow th muslims world to continue to ignore their part in the conflict, that they do only fuels those in Zionist movement who want war and oppression of the Arabs.