Bill, as I pointed out before, Israel has the world's third most well equipped military and the Palestinians have virtually none. Do you honestly think the Palestinians pose a credible threat to the State of Israel? Come on. Get real.

If the Palestinians are given what they've been asking for for a long, long time, namely independence, I'm quite confident that they will be too busy building their country to spend any time or energy bothering the much bigger, more powerful, and more highly equipped, militarily, State of Israel in any significant way. Besides, all Israel would need to do is to move all of those IDF forces that are now stationed within the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, and station them on the Israeli side of the border. I'm sure they are quite capable of protecting Israel from that position.

BTW, re: your assertion that my quotes come only from extremists within Israel- if you look carefully, you'll notice that one of those extremists is none other than Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel. And he has the power of life and death over every single man woman and child in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. That's just not right.