<...Let’s further stipulate the Palestinians are the primary agents of that attempt to eradicate Israel. There are kindred nations with a religious and ethnic similarities who are their allies, but it is the Palestinians who have the most to gain from ridding the area of Israel.

To be totally fair and accurate, the "primary agents" of the attempt to destroy Israel are the current (largely self-appointed) leaders of the Palestinians, including Arafat and certainly groups like Hamas and others.

I believe that many Palestinians, perhaps even a majority, would be perfectly willing to accept the existence of Israel if they were given a real, viable contiguous Palestinian state. That this requires a change in leadership is obvious.*

I have no objective evidence on hand for this belief (polls, etc.) and under the current leadership I'm not sure it is possible to reliably obtain such evidence, but I would venture that it is more likely than the assumption that every Palestinian in existence is willing to die to destroy Israel utterly.

For the record, it is true that a majority of Israelis are also willing to support a peaceful Palestinian state. Unlike the Palestinian authority, Israel is open to many freely held viewpoints, so I do have objective evidence of this.

The conclusions drawn from this viewpoint are different from those that you drew:

What is the Palestinian strategy for driving the Israelis into the sea? How will the Palestinians counter the armor, artillery, WMD, etc.?

Try this instead: "What is the Palestinian strategy for obtaining a viable nation of their own, free of Israeli military presence and as autonomous as possible?"

I can see no possible route for Palestinians to accomplish the first goal of the destruction of Israel. The military might of the entire Arab world tried three times and failed. If pushed far enough, Israel may resort to ethnic cleansing at best and genocide at worst. An ironic and rotten end for a nation partially born of the Holocaust.

I can see a number of possible routes for the second goal. The most viable, as many have pointed out, is organized non-violent resistance of the type that has succeeded in many other venues. A total abandonment of all violence in combination with a high-profile program of protests, marches, passive resistance, etc. would eventually gain the moral high ground for the Palestinians in a way not possible while they are still deliberately killing kids. Almost all nations and their media would enthusiatically support them in this, and the ball would be in Israel's court with no excuses left.

That this would be a long and frustrating process is obvious--it will take a long time to live down the suicide bombings--but I have no better ideas, and I don't think anyone else does either.

*I believe this state of affairs to be true in many other Arab nations as well (think average Afghanistan citizen vs. Taliban), but that's another story.