CarolC, your post of 10 Jun 08 - 12:07 AM is complete and utter rubbish, you are comparing apples to oranges. The Native American Indians negotiated peace treaties with the "White Man" in good faith, they had every intention of keeping them. It was the US Government in Washington and the greed of the settler's that broke those treaties.

Now with regards to the Palestine/Israeli conflict you have one side who seeks the desctruction of the other and has made no secret of it and who views any peace treaty/cease-fire as being only a temporary measure in which to rearm and regroup. And another side committed to finding a peaceful resolution and to peaceful co-existence. The first group CarolC are the Palestinians, the second the Israelis.

Nothing at all like your attempted comparison CarolC, unless of course you wish to reverse the roles.