[liberallarry]

...they might try focusing on gaining a change of heart among the roughly 80 percent of Palestinians, those still seeking to undo the outcome of the 1948-49 war by defeating Zionism and constructing a 22nd Arab state atop Israel's carcass.

This is the only thing Pipes got right...and it's not at all clear how we could go about doing it.

The modern nation state is a Western idea not really applicable to the Muslim Middle East. Arab loyalty is to land , religion, tribe. If Palestine was to revert to Islam and the Arabs, instead of the Turks, owned the land, they would be completely happy, regardless of whether they belonged to a small state or a large empire.

[SJackson]

...they might try focusing on gaining a change of heart among the roughly 80 percent of Palestinians, those still seeking to undo the outcome of the 1948-49 war by defeating Zionism and constructing a 22nd Arab state atop Israel's carcass...This is the only thing Pipes got right...and it's not at all clear how we could go about doing it.

How's this for a start.

GWB never stopped funding the PA, we were supplying over 400 million this year, but hs insisted on the fiction, and now is pleased to be publicly supplying the funds and arms. Among the things we're funding is education.

As a condition of aid, tell Abbas current textbooks have to be recycled into toilet paper. Insist on a non-hate filled curricula and texts. The PA runs the education system, this could be accomplished immediately.

The media is state owned. Beginning tomorrow, no more kill the Jews and death to America. Or no money.

The mosques, same thing.

Abbas can comply, or aid won't be forthcoming.

A start on the next generation.

Next installment, a justice and police system.

Of course this won't happen, this administration will continue to fund hate in the interests of establishing an independent palestinian state by 2008.