Israel ought to grow up

What bothers me is that whenever anyone tries to so much as talk with the Palestinians, the Israeli leadership cries"antisemitism, antisemitism!", which of course is perfectly ridiculous. It's such a stale old strategy, and it isn't working anymore.This decades log conflict has basically consisted of both sides shouting over each other without listening and talking to each other. The Indigenous Palestinians do have the right to determine the destiny of their own land, and they should not be treated like second class citizens in their own country. The Israelis are there to stay, however and to think that they would simply up and leave at this point is completely unrealistic. Is there is ever to be peace, both sides need to put their egos and their religious dogmas aside and agree to work together for a solution. Israel's strategy to marginalize the Palestinians as "terrorists" is ludicrous and ineffective. It will ultimately only make Hamas stronger. There are lessons to be learned from history on this matter. The Apartheid government of South Africa tried to use the same strategy with the ANC and it worked for them, but only for a while. Eventually what will happen, what must happen is that all citizens of Palestine (Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druze, etc) will have the right to govern themselves, and all rights including the right of return for Palestinians must be recognised on an equal basis. Both sides must recognise this soon. Anything short of this will only result in more conflict. A solution must be based upon Democracy, Tolerance and mutual Respect.

Osama bin Laden agrees with both of you.