It may be a bit hard to sort out who started what, who fired the first shot, etc. But your theory regarding ethnic cleansing is absurd.

The Jews have the hardware to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth tomorrow, if they choose, yet they constrain thier incursions to known pockets of terrorist activity.

Not so the PLO. They kill as many innocents as possible, and are proud of it.

In a war there is a distinct winner and a wretched loser. It can't be any other way. I WWII we didn't "negotiate" an end to hostilities, we kicked ass until the enemy came crawling to us to surrender. This is the only was a war can be permanently ended.

The arrogant Japanese once scoffed at the West and insinuated we were weak before their warriors, sons of the Sun God. But Harry evaporated that haughty aire with two atomic bombs and the great Japanese Empire quit like whipped dogs. What's more, that generation of Japanese, to this day, have a deep respect for America. Partly because of our largess, and partly because we let them draw first, and still gunned 'em down.

The Palenstinians are the invaders, not Israel. There is no such thing as a "Palestinian"! That term is a misnomer, adopted from the word Palestine, which is derived from the name for that hardy race of Greek sea peoples that settled there in ancient times, Polesit, later know as Philistines.

The so called Palestinians are arab squatters from every nation in the middle east. Are-A-Fat-Ass himself is Egyptian. Palestine is no more their country that it is yours of mine. It was Jewish territory for thousands of years until the lost it to Rome in 72 AD, and it later reverted to arab control. When the Jews took the West Bank and the Gza Strip in the 67 war they were recliming land that had been their for generations in the past.

The one factor that makes the Jews intransigent on the issue of statehood is the strategic importance of the proposed Palestinian state.

How would you like a bunch of hateful, violent arabs occupying a piece of ground that puts them within striking distance of every city in your coutry. Even artillery can reach every corner of Israel from there.