From a purely military standpoint, Israel is so far superior to the Palestinians that an all-out war for the survival of only one or the other, would not be a contest.

If Israel had any desire to score such a defeat over the Palestinians, it would have happened long ago.

Despite the statistics that about twice as many Palestinians than Israelis have been killed during this Intifada, the fact is that Israel takes much more care than most countries to protect innocent civilians. If they didn't, the Palestinian death count would be much higher. More along the lines of what we've seen in Iraq, where approximately 20 times as many civilians than Americans have been killed.

One thing that should be pointed out is that almost all of the Israeli deaths have been randomly targeted civilians victimized by suicidal homocide bombers, while most of the Palestinian deaths have been either terrorists, terrorist masters, or the unfortunate civilians that the terrorists and their masters hide behind.