Israel gets 3 billion dollars from the US in foriegn aid (as opposed to 17 million to the Palestinians). The US places the condition that 2 billion of foriegn aid to Israel has to go for military purposes.

DougR, some people would say that peace negotiations are working in Northern Ireland. I don't know, myself, if that is the truth or not, but the people in the US who have been a part of that process have said that it's working.

Having said that, when did people ever go to the moon before they went to the moon? If you always use what has been done before to determine what can be done, you'll never accomplish anything at all.

And short of being eliminated through ethnic cleansing, I don't really see the Palestinians giving up until they are free from Israeli occupation according to the terms of the UN resolutions (can't remember the names of them right now) that are being applied to this situation.