Reply #5: As Dwight Eisenhower said...

[Tom Joad]

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that holds true for both the US public and the Israeli public. Still, I don't think, absent outside pressures, that the Israeli policy will change in any significant degree.

I do think we can create those outside pressures. We must never be silent on human rights violations, and especially with a nation so identified with our own. Also, solidarity with the cause of justice for Palestine is real solidarity with the Israelis as well.

Unfortunately, just as Bushniks think the Europeans "hate us" because they are so opposed to Bush policies, so too are those folks who claim that those who oppose Israeli policies hate Israeli people ... and this should be seen as just as illogical.