NO! Israel doesn't want a separate Palestinian state since it would then have to grant it autonomy over its own borders and air space. Much better for Israel to continue its occupation and continue to build settlements on the West Bank, separating and crippling Palestinian communities in those areas. Let's face it, Israel wants ALL the land west of the Jordan. After all, God granted it to them many thousands of years ago, long before the UN got its real estate license.

This your comment sounds definitely unscholarly.Using even the Jews book as a reference,they were driven away or better still,they were liberated by Moses from Pharoah across the red sea to another set of people's territory.In the same manner that Americans initialy accomodated Britons on their land and later drove them away,so also shall israel be driven away from the illegally occupied land.it seems you are not exposed.let me inform you, it is the war of zionism because the Jews Rabis themselves were against having a an independent state.It is God's curse on them.By the way,the justification fo establishing israel state was the Hoolocaust palaver,why was it not establhed in Germany or a place in eourope where the acclaimed false Holocaust took place.be fair and just.you kill Palestinians and you do not want them to retaliate.never mind,Israel and their allies' doomsday is imminent.

I believe the Bush administration will do anything that might give them a chance to redeem themselves for posterity. Trying to broker some kind of peace between Palestine and Israel has a minuscule chance for success. The creation of a recognized Palestinian state cannot happen with two belligerents and I see neither government changing in the near future. Bush and his administration would probably do better to try and convince the rest of the world that waterboarding is a positive attribute of a democratic and free nation.

Why would anyone think the Palenstinians want a state? All they have ever said is they want Israel wiped off the map and appear to be dedicating their lives entirely to that goal Has anyone from Arafat to Hamas ever done anything for their own people other than teach them how to be suicide bombers? The people live in poverty with no hope for a future and their leaders march through the streets shooting rifles into the air. If they had a state, what would they do with it? Build a nation, educate and take care of their people like Israel has? That doesn't seem likely.

No. Not as long as the hyprocisies of the Israeli State continues. Its extremely unfortunate that a state that was created to give refuge to the Jewish people from the atrocities of genocide, would emulate that same policy to the regions indigenous people. There is a claim that it is god's gift to the his people but i have yet to actually see him come from the clouds and delegate his will to Blair or any members of the UN council apart of the Arab Peace Initiative. Its time that Olmert drops the thousand year old religious rhetoric, allow the basics humanitarian needs for the Palestinian people to be obtained, and begin serious negotiation's to stop Qassam rockets from going into Israeli and solders from going into Gaza.

It is possible - but the big question is: such peace deal so hastily scrambled, will it last? President Bush is racing against time to fullfil his targets. I think political maturity dictates that the Middle East Peace deal is not something which can/should be ascribed to one person. It shouldnt be anybody's personal trophy. President bush should make sure & authentic steps ... and hope whoever takes over from him picks up from where he left. This is a better option than bungling up everything in an attempt just to save personal face. The Middle East problem is a world problem and not just a George Bush or American problem.