Ho hum

You say >> “is that it will never ever be resolved until the right wing Zionists and "settlers" (really invaders and thieves) give up the conceipt that their ancient tribalistic cultic "god" promised the disputed piece of real estate to the Jewish people and that the associated idea that Jewish people are somehow gods "chosen" people.”

If you can’t see that you could also replace the word "jew" in the above paragraph with "arab" or "muslim", then you really aren’t interested in a solution at all.

It seems to me that virtually all the settlements bar a handful of the very large, (ie over 10,000 people) should be handed back and as for the rest, the Palestinians must be offered USEFUL Israeli land in recompense.

The Palestinians need to accept that there is no “right of return”. Compensation should, however, be payable.

Israel needs to accept that Arab Jerusalem will be the capital of a Palestinian state.

Palestinians and those in the west need to accept that Israel has the right to be a Jewish state, just as Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt etc, are Islamic states.

But before all this can happen, Hamas and the other terrorists MUST renounce violence. Israel needs to be reassured that the new Palestinian state won’t be a terrorist superstate, biding their time before they can completely overrun Israel.

Sancho,

Your comparison is NOT even remotely valid. Israel was formed with the express support of both the league of nations, and later the UN. On independence Arab armies tried to wipe out Israel, and tried twice more in the next 30 years. Furthermore, almost no-one believes Israel wants to keep all of Palestine. In fact, Israel recently gave back control of all of the gaza strip. Israel controls the west bank purely for reasons of internal security. Previously Israel has shown through its peace deal with Egypt that it is willing to cede land in return for peace. There is NO gesture on the Palestinian side of this magnitude.

Paul L,

Israel doesn't have the right to be a "Jewish" state any more than Malaysia has the right to be an "Islamic" one, the term implies inferior status for citizens of other religions.

By todays news Israel sees itself as a Middle East Power Bloc,when they asked George Bush if they could bomb Iran.

George of course flipped and said " No! No!!", well he is up to his neck in it, until the election!

The author is grasping at straws.

He at last recognises the situation. The meltdown in America will continue and a world wide depression will result.

As a consequence America will now be unable to support Israel's militarism.

Singer's response to this situation is revealing especially his comment re nuclear war. It is terrifying... for the only nation in the mid east with nuclear weapons is Israel.

Singer's a warmonger and an advocate for using nuclear weapons.

What a bloody disgrace

According to most Humanities studies, the Jewish-Arab problem in the Middle East will never be solved until we take note of what was discovered in the White House archives recently -

Found was a statement by Henry Kissinger, who while being Minister of State during the Nixon regime, gave the following warning -

To allow a little nation like Israel to become militarily atomic will upset the Middle East balance of power between Jews and Arabs to the point of so much Arab resentment it could become a major global problem.

To be sure it has proven so very true, having probably the only sensible Israeli Mordecai being made a prisoner for life, and the UN rendered virtually useless to handle the situation owing to America's lack of true scientific understanding of a matter which could even eventually cause a war with Iran possibly merging into a major war if Putin feels justified to back Iran.

Bushbred,

You have repeatedly told us about Kissinger and his supposed "warning" to the point where I could quote you verbatim. So

One simple question for you.

How has Israels possession of nuclear weapons affected the outcome of the Arab-Israeli conflict?