Let's assume the Israelis and Palestinians hate each other. There is a great deal of friction.

Let's just assume the suicide bombing will continue, as a function of the ongoing hate and despair which isn't going away.

Let's assume Sharon plays the only card he knows, an army.

Clearly the Palestinians cannot kill all Israelis.

Can Sharon kill all Palestinians?

(Heck, what's the financial cost of a suicide bomber as opposed to the cost of Israeli military operations over a garrisoned or demobilized army?)

Can Sharon stop? Can he keep going?

It wouldn't seem to me he can do either. Wish I had an answer.

As far as UN peacekeeping forces go, look at a map of the settlements in Palestine since 1967.

Israeli settlements in Palestine

Impossible for a force such as described.

And, the 1967 cease fire, brokered by the UN and accepted by all parties restored the original boundaries, with very minor modifications. The settlements are illegal by the earlier partition of lands creating Israel.

Why is it the US thinks the Cubans in America who hate Castro are right, when the Palestinians who hate the Israelis are wrong? How is taking the property of one not OK (Castro) and taking the property of the other OK (UN to create Israel)?

Arf