"There have been no meaningful peace talks for decades (though there have been plenty of charades perpetrated by the US/Israel axis), and there is no prospect of any to come. Why? Because the Israeli regime knows that it is totally immune from ever having to compromise."

There have been "meaningful" peace talks (Certainly between Israel and the Egyptians and Jordanians) but on each occasion involving the Arabs of Palestine the Arabs have pulled back as solutions have seemed to have appeared.

As I have said before nothing can be done until the Arabs of Palestine give formal recognition to the State of Israel and the right of its citizens to live in peace free from attack and free from the threat of attack. No nation should ever have to compromise its national security in the interest of others. Israel can not only survive but thrive without the Arabs of Palestine, the converse, however is not true, the Arabs of Palestine rely on Israel to provide the prosaic things in life, the Palestinians themselves having been on the receiving end of the world's largesse in the form of billions in aid for more than fifty years have achieved nothing and there is a reason for that - Had that aid been put to "good use" the "leaders of these "Palestinians" would have had to have worked for a living. It is in the interests of the "Palestinian leadership" to keep their Palestinians in abject poverty and totally reliant on meagre handouts - doubt that Mr. Shaw? Then please explain why there are "Palestinian Refugee Camps" in territory claimed as Palestinian and governed entirely by Palestinians.