Well then, if only the Pals and the Israeli arabs quit blowing stuff up, they could wait until they are a majority and vote the Israelis out of the west bank.
No, Israel will take steps before then.
Candidates for the Knesset can be barred for questioning the Jewish nature of the state, and the Israeli public puts defending the Jewish nature of the state as more important than democracy in opinion polls.
There has been talk in recent years of a seperate parliament for Israeli Arabs, and I expect that to get more support as their numbers increase, if Israel has not become a more integrated society before then, and no deal has been concluded with the Palestinians.
Because the Israelis are winning the war of attrition if you want to look at it that way.
There is no war of attrition. The Israelis kill 1 - 2000 Palestinians a year for the last couple of years. The Palestinian growth rate is nearly 4% per annum, or about 150,000 people per year.
In fact, the closures and curfews actually push the birth rate up, as does increasing poverty.
The war is about public opinion. That's all terrorism can change.
The Palestinians seek to make the occupation too expensive for the Israelis, an have largely succeeded. The Israelis seek to make terrorism too expensive for the Palestinians, and have largely succeeded.
In the end of course nothing will change without outside pressure, because the Israelis equate possesion of the West Bank with security, and the Palestinians believe terrorism is the only way they can get Israel to end the occupation.
Thankfully the "road map" is about to be presented, and may offer a way out if the Americans put genuine pressure behind it.
