I think there is a difference between a calculated escalation that is deemed to be the only way to bring an issue to a head and the desire to avoid the unavoidable and thus continue with an essentially unacceptable status quo.

You are leaping way into the future, too far out for me to be able to agree or disagree with.

Palestine has been a cancer for close on 70 (years give or take). It is no better today that it was pre-Israel or in the period after delaration when the major wars were fought there.

One fact is irrefutable & that is that the *only* democracy in the ME is Israel. They seem to be the only people there with a will for a demoocracy but are struggling in quicksand with the surrounding governments.

Doug M