That's what his peace partner has been pressing for since September. Arafat is crazy like a fox. He escalates violence precisely to lend the impression that the region is out of control and that international intervention is therefor mandated. He isn't really after protection. He knows we use no uranium shells and no poison gas.
Truth be told, most Israeli politicians know that.
Even on the Left. He may be less intellectually sophisticated than the foreign minister, but at least he's got his feet on terra firma. Moreover, he's not the only one to realize that Ben-Ami apparently doesn't. But what the broad Israeli consensus often regarded as preposterous unthinkables have in time gained acceptance. This is what happened to the Palestinian state, to removing settlements, to relinquishing the Jordan valley, to dividing Jerusalem, and, somewhat, even to ceding the Temple Mount.