Response to Cyrus

It would remove the root cause of the current problem. The days when the organized Palestinian fronts like Fatah and the PLFP proclaimed their desire to replace Israel with a "secular" state are long gone. The central conflict now is that Israel is determined to isolate the Palestinians in the occupied territories into Bantustan-like enclaves seperated by a network of fortified settlements connected with Israel-controlled roads and superstructure (water, utilities, etc.), and sees little reason, in the absence of U.S. pressure, to consider any significant departure from this plan.


The Palestinians refuse to go along with it. What self-respecting people would?