The fact that the current Palestinian leadership and most of their Arab backers have the goal of the utter elimination of Israel is no big secret. Those who claim otherwise are either (for lack of a better word) dupes, or inwardly have exactly the same goal.

Not surprisingly, they are the same people who said the Soviet Union had no expansionist tendencies, that S. E. Asia wouldn't fall to communism if we left, that Saddam is no threat to anybody, and that the Easter Bunny is coming in a few weeks.

Just for fun, a map of what Israel and a Palestinian State would have looked like if the Arabs had just let things alone after the partition: