The article may not be "balanced," but is any of it untrue?

You make a good point about the people in general getting along. It's the leadership that's a lot of the problem, either Palestinian, Israeli, or some of both. Note that the Palestinian leaders egg their people on to become suicide bombers, but I have yet to see Arafat or any of his thugs strap on a dynamite belt. Note that Israeli leaders can be very stubborn about the settlements, in the face of a large segment of the Israeli population that is willing to compromise on this.

I don't know that much about Barghouti, but nothing positive is going to happen until Arafat is replaced. Either he is in on the terrorism, or he is incapable of doing anything to stop it. Either way, he's counterproductive as a leader.

At this point it would probably be a vast improvement if the Palestinians grabbed someone at random off the street and made him the president.

In the past decades, we have tried out several Israeli leaders, and gotten no results. It's time to change the other variable now, and get rid of Arafat.