And to pre-empt those who would argue that Israel never dealt in good faith:

The Palestinians have actually had numerous opportunities to create an independent state, but have repeatedly rejected the offers:

In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed the partition of Palestineand the creation of an Arab state.

In 1939, the British White Paper proposed the creation of a unitary Arab state.

In 1947, the UN would have created an even larger Arab state aspart of its partition plan.

The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace negotiations offered the Palestinians autonomy, which would almost certainly have led to full independence.

The Oslo agreements of the 1990s laid out a path for Palestinian independence, but the process was derailed by terrorism.

In 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to create a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 97 percent of the West Bank.

In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to withdraw from almost the entire West Bank and partition Jerusalem on a demographic basis.

In addition, from 1948 to 1967, Israel did not control the West Bank. The Palestinians could have demanded an independent state from the Jordanians.

The Palestinians have spurned each of these opportunities. A variety of reasons have been given for why the Palestinians have in Abba Eban’s words, “never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Historian Benny Morris has suggested that the Palestinians have religious, historical, and practical reasons for opposing an agreement with Israel. He says that “Arafat and his generation cannot give up the vision of the greater land of Israel for the Arabs. [This is true because] this is a holy land, Dar al-Islam [the world of Islam]. It was once in the hands of the Muslims, and it is inconceivable [to them] that infidels like us [the Israelis] would receive it.”

The Palestinians also believe that time is on their side. “They feel that demographics will defeat the Jews in one hundred or two hundred years, just like the Crusaders.” The Palestinians, Morris says, also hope the Arabs will acquire nuclear weapons in the future that will allow them to defeat Israel.

“Barak made a proposal that was as forthcoming as anyone in the world could imagine, and Arafat turned it down. If you have a country that’s a sliver and you can see three sides of it from a high hotel building, you’ve got to be careful what you give away and to whom you give it.”

— U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

"While Hamas and Fatah said that they were determined to reach a reconciliation deal, signs of ongoing troubles between the two sides persisted. On Thursday, Hamas accused the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority of escalating an arrest campaign against its supporters in the West Bank."

Let them have peace between themselves.

There are not much differences between them when it comes to Jews and other non-Muslims.

Hamas wants Jews out right now and Fatah wants to wait and strike! Goals are same!

Many followers of Islamic cult have fast marched backwards to seventh century desert days of telling lies, cheating, stealing, looting, kidnapping, raping, looting, hating, killing and genocides of those declared as "infidels."

Look at Syria where Muslims are killing each other!

These days, if one talks of peace with seventh century Islamists like Hamas, one is day dreaming too much!

Don't you two ever get tired of stalking boards dealing with the Middle East? You're obviously getting paid to do it, probably by Israel, because no sane person would devote as much time as you guys do to spreading all that anti-Muslim hatred. You never post anything else.

Just a tip, but you'd be more credible if you came across as actual people instead of cut'n'pasting propaganda into online forums. Try formulating an opinion that sounds unique instead of taking posts off the playbooks supplied by your employer.

As long as Nutanyahoo is in office with his dream of an Apartheid Palestinian State in which Israel controls their borders, there will never be peace.

Nutanyahoo wont stay in power longer than four years. Can you say the same about Hamas?

I sure can say that Hamas is a terrorist organizations whose leaders dream of a Judenfree Middle East, and as long as they are the ones running Gaza and enjoying great influence in West Banks, there can be no peace.

The case against israel is gradually formulating in most american minds while the u.s. administration STILL tries to convince us that israel is an "ally" ... If we were even slightly honest about dealing with israel, we would at least acknowledge the growing dissent against israeili activities.

The government of israel is a very right winged and appartheid government while we just learned that the common israeili is much more extreme than their government. Gosh, what does that make most israeilis ? I'm not sure why my government blindly supports israel on every front and against all Arabs in general not just Palestinians.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that the israeili supporters in congress are working to funnel more and more of my tax money to israel while claiming to be neutral and "fair". Well, if it weren't for most american jews in congress and the senate, we probably wouldn't "support" israel as much as we do.

Something fishy is going on and I wish more people would ask some of these questions. Meanwhile, do not re-elect your congresswman/woman if they are israeili supporters. They were probably installed in congress or even the senate with jewish money and not in a transparent and fair way. Question that support and please ask exactl WHY we give this much tax collected money to israel when WE NEED IT more at home.

It's funny how you claim that "case against israel is gradually formulating in most american minds" when 50 years ago USA was not supporting Israel at all.

You give away your own lack of objectivity when you call Israel "apartheid", anyone who has any knowledge of Israel and an objective view knows that in Israel people of all nationalities and religions have equal rights.

Through all that talk about money you pretend not to know that a lot more of our tax-payer's money goes to Arab states, including those who recently did a number on American embassies, but, of cause, that does not bother you.

Here is something you will have to face, the majority of Americans still supports Israel, because they know that Israel shares their democratic values, and because islamists are enemies to US just as much as to Israel.

I am an American citizens and I intend to keep voting for those members of congress who support Israel, and I know that all the true Americans will keep doing the same.

@Eli...equal rights ? lol What are you smoking my friend. Read the below article about your "equal rights". And before you say this is bias, note that the author is Allen Katzoff.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/home-demolitions-a-challenge-to-israels-moral-credibility/

I think Gaza and the West Bank should be separate countries. And guess which one will flourish? Go to Ramallah and see what they have done, the West Bank Palestinians. then visit Gaza City, see what Hamas has done. They have hated each other for over 2 decades. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Fatah, now that Arafat is gone, has evolved more positively.

Sorry Justice but your full of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.