What is truly a challenge is the street itself. However, the establishment of a state will require the cooperation of Hamas, which retains its importance in Palestinian society, as well as other domestic groups. We have to recognize that Fateh is the dominant political group, but close to 40 percent of the public is not affiliated with any particular group, and, therefore, you have civil society as well as parties, NGOs, etc. When we talk about the situation in general, we reach a point of no return. There is no way that the confrontations can be stopped by focusing on security arrangements alone without fully addressing a political solution.
Security can only be one component in conjunction with the political solution.
There is no returning to the pre-Intifada period, only a moving forward to a new situation. If anybody thinks that security arrangements alone can calm the situation, and that we can go back to the pre-Intifada period, this person is not realistic. There is no doubt that this kind of Intifada is sending a message to the settlers, but like the previous Intifada, it may not necessarily succeed in forcing the settlers or the Israeli government to reassess their position. To the contrary, during the first Intifada, settlement funding and expansion continued unabated, and even increased. The position of the Israeli government did not change.