Re: The permanent revolution
We've been "brokering" almost nonstop between the Palestinian leadership* (always Arafat) and Israel (many different leaders) for decades, and this has brought us exactly what?
The sticking point is that there is no compromise that can be made with an entity that demands the utter extinction of Israel as a nation--something the Palestinian leaders have put down in writing--and until Palestinians get some people in charge who are actually willing to live in the same time zone as a Jew, then we might get somewhere.
Step one is get rid of Arafat and his goons.
*note the precise phrasing here.