Funny thing is Little Hawk, I have NEVER yet heard any Israeli declare ANY INTENTION, OR AIM of wiping any country or race from the face of the earth, regardless of provocation. On the otherhand over the years, there have been numerous examples of such threats being uttered by Arab Nations and by Terrorist Organisations that they sponsor.

Now, while you and I can sit back fat-dumb-and-happy in our respective distant safe-havens, discussing the finer points of the arguement, the Israeli's have to deal with the realities of the situation, and given THEIR recent past history they are going to take a very serious view of such threats.

As someone in this thread has already pointed out, given that it is every country's right to defend itself, and given that it is reprehensible for any nation to attack another in order to defend itself. It follows that it is perfectly in order for Israel to build it's dividing wall (which has been extremely effective), to establish stringent check-points, to restrict access, etc, in order to defend itself. It also follows that it is reprehensible for the Palestinians to indiscriminately target and bomb Israeli citizens.

As to "borders" the following has been true throughout the entire period, that first the Jews, then post-1948 the Israeli's have always been open to negotiation and dialogue in order to solve the differences in the region. The Arabs of the region on the otherhand have always resorted to violence and the threat of violence as a first resort, the reasoning behind this is that they have no wish to live in peace alongside Israel, their ultimate goal is to destroy the state of Israel. As a result of numerous spectacular and catastrophic defeats, the Arabs of the region no longer face up as nations, they sponsor various groups of malcontents to continue the struggle by proxy on their behalf. Some day the general rank and file of the "Palestinian People" (An invention of Tosser Arafat's by the way) will wake up to the fact that those who have supposedly been "leading" them for the past fifty years and more, do not have their best interests at heart and that another way is required. At that point the militant groups and countries such as Syria and Iran will be told to bugger off.