who upon encountering someone who doesn't speak English, just talks louder in hopes of bridging the language gap. I'm not here to dispute your intepretation of the facts. Perhaps each and every one of your bullet points is spot on. Or...maybe some are colored due to some bias or another. But...it really doesn't matter.

The Israel people - not just the Israeli guvmint...and not just the "Zionists", aren't going to concede their sovereignty. And...you're dreaming if you think that someday..the Israeli democracy will suddenly "see your light" and vote themselves out of existence.

President Clinton was absolutely right. Arafat threw a condition into the mix, that Israel couldn't possibly fulfill. Arafat may've thought they should have been able to. You may think they should've been able to. Heck...all the world's most wonderous minds and 98% of its population might think they should've been able to. But...they couldn't.