"The financial resources of the Arab oil countries are far beyond those of Israel" - what's really so different about saying that and talking about "the wealth of world Jewry"? Both phrases invite anti-semitism in through the front door. Palestinians don't control the wealth of the oil sheikdoms any more than Israelis control enterprises owned by Jews in far parts of the world.

Peace will have to involve the Palestinians accepting that most of the injustice which has been imposed on them (and which the Israelis were forced into perpetrating by the horrors the Jewish people endured) cannot be undone. But the balance of power is overwhelmingly against them - and greater power implies a greater responsibility to exercise extreme restraint, and to recognise how hard it is to accept the injustice and exile that has been the fate of both branches of Abraham's descendants.

Peace will come. Neither people are going away. Fifty years is nothing in the history of either. But in the meantime every death is a waste and a futile and blasphemous sacrifice.