Recognize Israel's right to exist, declare a new era and an open peace process, and an inextricable moral burden will be on Israel. It would have to negotiate or look to the U.S. and the world like a real enemy of peace and the Palestinians.

Seems obvious enough to me. Why wasn't it done long ago? What have the Palestinians to lose?

It hasn't been done because the Palestinian leadership has enslaved itself to hatred, pride, jingoism, revenge fantasies, and fear of their most radical colleagues and citizens.

Hamas has never given an indication of magnanimity to anybody. When Germany took back the Polish Corridor, motivated like Hamas by revenge and the elimination of a sovereign neighbor, it put Poles and Polish Jews into real, not pretend, starvation camps. Why should the Israelis expect better from Hamas?

Why?