and repeatedly "we wish to exterminate the entire Jewish race" and they hear nothing." Because viewing Republicans as 'evil' and fighting them tooth-and-nail is safe and makes them feel brave. They know consiously or unconsiously that Republicans won't do them any harm unlike real evil organisations like Hamas. Also, don't discount the childish impulse that libs have in taking the opposite side of any Republican issue. If Republicans view an organization as dangerous and one that needs to be opposed, be sure that libs will embrace that same organization with excuses and rationalizations. Easy fix. Let's have a vote. Let's draw a line around the entire spot of territory in dispute. Let's let all the people who currently live in that territory, and all of the people who want to live there (but are currently kept out for various reasons) vote for who should be in charge. This would be democracy at work. Let all of Palestine vote (not just the current Israeli partition). What could be wrong with a democratic vote? Mr. Rubin you nailed it. For the foreseeable future there won't be any sort of peace between Israel's neighbors nor with the "invented entity" called Palestinians. Even not their name is theirs! The arab-muslim Middle East is not going through a change, it is more a managed collapse. The problem isn't only an Israeli one, its a Western (and world) problem. I was just reading a US (dated November 2012) Congressional Report which ties Hezbollah terror org to