Teribus, just a quick last thought; my impression (and apologies if I'm wrong here) is that you are setting out from the viewpoint that Israel's Arab neighbours, let's say the palestinians in particular, simply cannot get on with with Israel. By the same token you also seem to suggest that the base reason for this is simply because they ARE palestinian; that something that no sane person can fathom is wrong with them, and genetically they are pre-disposed to carnage and hatred. Therefore the only solution is to 'contain' or destroy them.

Ummm. I think you can't fail to see what's wrong with that line of thinking and how doomed it is to failure.

MY point is rather that if Israel stopped stepping on Palestine's corns, they'd probably find palestinians to be fairly good neighbours, even if like my own neighbours, they'll never be bosom buddies.



BBRuce - thanks for the link, had a look at that, have bookmarked site, looks interesting. will see if I can find Italiain page as well.