Reply #11: That last sentence makes my head spin.

[msmcghee]

"There is little doubt that the people of Arab Palestine would be willing to settle, however unhappily in some instances, for a state of Arab Palestine alongside the state of Israel, just as a majority of Israelis would accept such a resolution to the conflict."

I have a lot of trouble reconciling that statement with my reading of events as they have unfolded there in the last several years. It seems to me that Palestinian-Arabs have a higher priority of occupying all of the original British Mandate territories including present-day Israel - and that they believe that accepting a separate state would require them to politically forgo their larger aspirations to have a Mideast devoid of Jews.

Rather than me list the many reasons why your statement doesn't make sense to me - I'd really appreciate if you could just list one or two of the most significant reasons that you believe your statement to be true.