"When the place you and your family have been living in perhaps for generations is sold by an absentee landlord and the new owner evicts you, that feels very like dispossession"

And this happened where Kevin?

I say again just in case you missed it before. The Turks sold the Jews land that they considered to be worthless - gardens of rocks - swamps - Nobody lived ON IT OR FROM IT.

Tell us what industries were "native" to the area. I can list the towns and cities that sprang up due the industries and businesses the Jews created. They created employment and the most numerous source of a workforce were Arabs, but most of them were drawn into the area - they did not "live there".

"The Palestinian youth in particular have to be told in no uncertain terms what they are not to even think of...that the world will come down heavily on them." - mg

And exactly how is the "world going to come down heavily on them"?? Kill them?? Give them a good stern talking to?? It is not the Palestinian youth that are the problem it is the thiefing leadership of the likes of Hamas, Fatah and Hezbollah THEIR view has to change.

A DMZ in Palestine?? Have you had a look at a map of the place?? No room that is why there is a wall. And the Wall worked - no Israeli's getting shot from inside the West Bank - now far far harder for suicide bombers to sneak into Israel - no rockets fired from the West Bank into Israel because Fatah are not as idiotic as Hamas, Fatah has seen what happens when you fire rockets into Israel - The Israelis hit back a damn sight harder.

Interesting mg in your list of things that MUST HAPPEN there is no wringing from the Arabs of this Palestine of yours that they must recognise the right of Israel to exist and the right of Israelis to live free from threat of attack.