Your question is over a position of your own making, sometimes called putting up the straw man. I think that Israel has acknowledged the existence of Palestinians all along.

Robomatic, your own words show that this is not the case. You, yourself, have illustrated exactly what I'm talking about with regard to the official stance taken by Israel regarging the Palestinians with this post...

As to the 'right' of Palestinians to have their own country, which would be something new on the scene as the territory now comprising Israel has been 'occupied' by one or another power since biblical times, this has long been a matter which should be negotiated, rather than fought.

Why should it be negotiated if it is being recognized? And there are plenty of other examples, many of them from members of the Israeli government, that clearly show that the Palestinians' rights or legitimate claims to any part of what has always been their home, are not valid. Like the line that the Palesinians' homeland is Jordan. This is simply not true, but it's an important part of the official Israeli doctrine on this subject.