Carol, those were never borders in the first place. All of the neighboring Arab countries invaded Israel within 24 hours of the UN's declaration of Israel as a state. The 1967 "border" is actually the cease-fire line that was established after they nearly finished Mr. Hitler's job for him. They aren't exactly defendable against anything. For example, Tel Aviv International Airport sits almost on top of it, and there was originally only an eight-mile-wide corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Artillery or rockets on the Golan Heights would (and did) threaten Israeli towns all around the Sea of Galilee. The Old City of Jerusalem was on the Jordanian side of the border, and Jews weren't allowed to worship at the site of the Temple Mount between 1949 and 1967.

I don't know if there is a solution. My personal favorite is to pull all of the Israeli settlers and the Israeli military out of the West Bank and Gaza, set up fortified borders, and let the Palestinians have their state... without the jobs that they were commuting to in Israel before the current troubles. The question of the Palestinian refugees will have to be addressed, but a little known fact is that more Jews left the countries in the Middle East for Israel (often lucky to keep the clothes on their backs) than Palestinians left what is now Israel...and none of these people are in refugee camps.

Mr. Bush isn't very high on my "greatest presidents" list...and Mr. Sharon is somewhat lower, but none of their predecesors had any luck in solving this either.