There are plenty of Israeli Jews who want all of the Arabs/Palestinians removed from all of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. You are holding all Palestinians responsible for the attitudes of the most extreme Palestinians. Should we not
also, then, hold all Jews or at least all Israelis responsible for attitudes of their most extreme members?

Actually CarolC, the extremists in Israel who want that are are a very small percentage of the population. Before the only party (Kach) that has advocated that position was made illegal by an act of the Israeli Knesset, they had garnered only about 1/2 of 1% of the vote. In other words, when you refer "plenty of Israeli Jews," you're being deceptive and misleading. The people in Israel who think that way are a tiny fringe.

I've said quite clearly that I want the occupation to end. I want the occupation to end now. The one thing that we both agree on is that the occupation has turned into a disaster for both sides.

When you say that I'm "holding all Palestinians responsible for the attitudes of the most extreme Palestinians," you are putting words in my mouth that were never there. A propaganda tactic that only cheapens your arguement.

What I said, is that Palestinian terrorism started long before the occupation. That is a fact. What I also said was that ending the occupation will not end the attacks on Israel. I said that because that is the stated, and constantly reapeated, policy of a large Palestinian organization whose popular support has been shown to be equal to, if not greater in some places, than that of Arafat's PA. And that, too, is a fact.

You ask: "Should we not also, then, hold all Jews or at least all Israelis responsible for attitudes of their most extreme members?"

Well, clearly, the fact that Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Brigade (a part of Arafat's own Fatah movement) make it a point to randomly target all Israelis -- men, women, children, babies -- with their terrorism, that is what has been happening.