Just feel their resentment, personally I would like to see a ONE state solution then they could slug it out in parliament like the rest of us rather than on the streets but thats a naive thing to wish for.

Does this means that the Splodies have been given the keys so they can extend their self-immolations from the sidelines; now they can get up and personal to the "international community"? Splodies Gangnam Style?.

It was interesting to read the Vatican's response, ever the political opportunist, calling for "a guaranteed special status for Jerusalem" , already maintained as such by it's very nature as sacred by Israel, to Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
They also looked for "special guarantees" when Unesco granted world heritage toThe Church of the Nativity in Palestine city Bethlehem.

It really is past time for Israel to apply its clear prerogative under international law, move to protect the civil rights of all "Palestinians", especially the women, and annex the West Bank

,http://geofffff.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/the-one-state-solution.html

You cannot reason with hatred.

Spiro Vlachos

"Arabs did not enter the region until the seventh century AD."

Populations are rarely totally replaced by invaders, what occurred in Palestine, as in North Africa and other areas of the ME, is that existing inhabitants were Arabised and Islamised by the Arab ruling caste. Many people, currently living in Israel/Palestine would have lineages the originated in the Neolithic, whether they identify as "Arab" or "Jew".

Gary Murphy,

Agree entirely, whether 1400 years or 8000, the policies of the Israeli government are morally repugnant.

The history of humanity is a history of invasions and migrations, the notion that any ethic/religious group has a right to "re-occupy" its ancestral lands is chauvinistic nonsense.

04/12/2012 These are words from 1950s and we know they are out there alone there is no consolation prize for it I guess we talk we talk but we hide the facts. It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world's population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States. President Barack Obama attended the summit to sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership excluding China. He didn't. The American led-partnership became a party to which no-one came. Instead, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, will form a club and leave out the United States. As 3 billion Asians become prosperous, interest fades in the prospective contribution of 300 million Americans - especially when those Americans decline to take risks on new technologies. America's great economic strength, namely its capacity to innovate, exists mainly in memory four years after the 2008 economic crisis... That is the position of Obama now I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA

US stocks struggled to extend the previous week's gains, dropping on Monday as disappointing US factory numbers dampened optimism about China's economic growth. The declines broke a three-day streak of gains for the S&P 500, keeping it shy of its 50-day moving average of about 1,420, a level that the index has been below since October 22, and now serving as a key resistance point for investors. Manufacturing activity in the United States surprisingly contracted in November, the Institute for Supply Management said, dropping to its lowest level in more than three years. Economic data has been mixed in recent months, fanning worries about the pace of growth at a time when investors are already concerned about the "fiscal cliff" issue in Washington. The ISM number "was below expectations that were already conservative, and that puts an exclamation point on the concern many of us have about the cliff's impact on the economy," said Leo Grohowski, chief investment officer at BNY Mellon Wealth Management in New York. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA

If you must talk why not say we are in the zone where we will stay for long ..04/12/2012Global carbon dioxide pollution reached a record high last year as it increased by 3 percent, making it virtually impossible that the international goal of limiting global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit will become a reality. Last year, all the countries in the world pumped almost 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. That amounts to more than 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per second, points out the Associated Press. If there’s any hope of meeting the goal to limit temperature increases that was established in a non-binding agreement three years ago, there must be “an immediate, large and sustained global mitigation effort,” said one of the lead scientists tracking global carbon dioxide emissions. Although emissions are falling in some of the most developed countries, it “is more than matched by continued growth in developing countries like China and India,” reports the New York Times. While the United States decreased emissions by 2 percent to 5.9 billion tons and Germany by 4 percent to 0.8 billion tons, China’s emissions soared 10 percent to 10 billion tons and India’s rose 7 percent to 2.5 billion tons. Global emissions increased 3 percent in 2011 and are expected to rise another 2.6 percent this year. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA

Wow that was a very comprehensive rebuttal. Than again sarcasm aside I don't blame you. You can't argue something when you have nothing righteous or moral to argue, hence oldest trick in the book, change subject or get personal. Good attempt ;)