Israel will continue to exist--or the mid-East will discontinue to exist. Amongst all the rhetoric and 'he pushed me back first' talk, the central issue is that reactions are getting stronger, and eventually the reactions will become stronger and slightly more disproportionate. None of this will mean a damned thing, no one's arguments about right, wrong, truth, justice. And until such time as thinking people grasp that, the war will escalate. And when the desert sands cool in fifty thousand years, anthropologists will look back on the written record here and ask, "Why didn't they stop it?"