Wrong in only one small... but crucial area....

The assumption that it is the palestinian extremists who always act first to break up any peace process before it has a chance to get going by sending in Suicide bombers..... and the Israelis just react.

Look at the west bank settlements.....Israel has been told time and time again, by the UN, by the US, by everyone in fact........ DON'T build anymore, and start considering how to withdraw from those you have built.......... They are still building today...........illegally siezeing yet more Palestinian lands, bulldozing homes and properties to make way for more settlements, with no compensation whatsoever............even though they cannot fill those they have already built.... and doing this after they swore... before a US president and the rest of the world.. they would stop.

It's not just Palestinian extremists who are determined to halt the peace process in it's tracks........... The present Israeli leadership was elected on a promise to do exactly that.... Sharon made it very clear during the election campaign that he would abandon the "peace process" and bring " security" to the Israeli people by useing israel's vast military superiority to impose a solution, should the Palestinians get "uppity".

He has failed.

You don't always need " good faith" negotiators on both sides to settle a dispute in a just manner.

(Bear in mind that Sharon cannot visit some parts of Europe , should he do so he will be brought before an international court to answer charges of war crimes committed years ago against unarmed Palestinian civilians)

But if the far more powerful of the two sides insists that it will have it's way... and has all the firepower it needs to get it's way.......then it doesn't matter how much "good faith" the weaker side has does it?

You won't have peace.

Sharon came to power promiseing Victory.. not peace.