[kezekiel]

Just my 2 cents...I still hold to the view of massive deportation and partition as the only answer with any legs of the long variety.

Deport to where? Who would have them? Most of the Arab states have kicked them out already. Egypt could have had the Gaza Strip back, and didn't want it because it already had a lot of bad tenants on it. Better to build their resorts on the nice, quiet Sinai rather than below cliffs full of troublesome Palestinians.

Jordan, after bloodily evicting thousands of Palestinians, renounced any claim on the West Bank. They wouldn't take it back if the Israeli's gave it to them.

Lebanon and Tunisia breathed sighs of relief after the PLO left their shores.

No, I'm afraid that mass deportation is no solution, unless we put highrises in Camp X-Ray.

As for how the world believes Israel should confront Hamas, I'm sure their preference would be that Israel politely request that the PA conduct a proper investigation, and get back to Sharon when they have something to report-"if that wouldn't be to much to ask for, Mr. General Yassir Arafat, sir."

[wardaddy]

They will have to be forced on someone. Were I a Pali, I would be fighting to retake Jordan from the Hashemites who they would outnumber decisively were they ALL in Jordan. The little boy King and his Brit and US(origin) relatives are not sacred cows destined to be preserved in power forever. They are after all monarchs. They come and go. That's all the Arabs understand or are capable of maintaining as a form of government. Authoritarianism.