This tendency plagues us throughout all of our history. Lacking autonomy for almost two thousand years, we are especially sensitive to others' struggles to achieve it. It does not matter that they want to do it at our expense. It does not matter that we have to give up our land for them. Apparently autonomy is a sacred thing.
Peace is real if the great majority on both sides accepts it whole-heartily as a fair compromise.
The logic of the brain is not enough, the logic of the heart is needed too. Not only the political attitudes of the Palestinian people must be taken into account, but also their feelings, anxieties and hopes. The deep self-hatred of the Gush Shalom leaders which oozes from every line of the ad is obvious. However, there is one line in the Gush Shalom ad that needs to become a front page headline in all the Israeli newspapers. This is the answer to all Israeli troubles.