Good post there, robomatic. I see that there is much we can agree on. As for ending up one of the innocent bystanders who gets blown up on a Haifa bus (or in a Palestinian slum)...well, there's no guarantee of personal safety in this life, sadly. Life is a risk-taking business, regardless of what you do or don't do. I haven't got a solution that will make everyone safe, and I guess the politicians haven't come up with one yet either. What worries me is, I think they're going in the wrong direction on it most of the time...they're trying to make their people safe by attacking and intimidating the other people. That's not the way I would go about it.