It doesn't take much stregnth of charecter to suggest that Israel stop its harsh retaliation for Palestinian based terrorist attacks, when the suggestion comes from the safety of distance and lack of familial or national kinship. Israel has, on more than one occasion, proved itself able to destroy its enemies. That it has not done so, is evidence of its desire for coexistance with its neighbors, in spite of their recurring efforts to destroy the Jewish state. Israel has never opposed a Palestinian state. The opposition to that state was, and is, an Arab refusal to allow a seperate Jewish state. Israel is not a rogue state nor is it an outsider, colonizing monolith. It was founded by the same fiat that founded the same Palestinian state that pan-Arabism fought against and then accused Israel of subverting. The "underdogs" and "victims" that so many of you are championing are the very terrorists that you fear. If the attack on 9/11 did anything, it showed the world what the Israelis are dealing with. I am, still, resolved that the centuries old exploitation of the Palestinian peasents should cease and that these long time peons of the Arab world should have a state of their own (hopefully, with an egalitarian division of land). But, I am not altruistic enough to sacrifice my people's lives to accomplish that end. As I previously stated, unless you are offering to place yourself or your families in peril, I find your "solutions" alternately offensive and laughable.