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Historical precedents do not favor Israel's 200,000 settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestine's war of liberation, as reprehensible as wanton terrorism is, will continue until the two-state solution — Israel and Palestine — is achieved.

Does this doofus really think they will stop with the settlements? They will continue terrorizing Israel until it ceases to exist. Israel must simply drive them out if peace cannot be made.

This guy's recap of recent terrorism is pretty good, so I will cross-link it here:

The Web of Terror

Historical precedents do not favor Israel's 200,000 settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestine's war of liberation, as reprehensible as wanton terrorism is, will continue until the two-state solution — Israel and Palestine — is achieved. And unless the Tenet-Mitchell negotiating track is imposed by the Bush administration, the current drift may well lead to the adoption by the moderates of the extremist agenda — i.e., a one-state solution. That's why a muscular U.S. policy in the region is an urgent imperative.

Of course there is an extreme difference between the Israeli situation now, and the French situtation regarding Algeria. Algeria never threatened the existence of France herself, the Arabs and a Palestinian state under any likely leadership, could and likely would, do just that. The PA, under it's former guise of the PLO, was in existence before the '67 war which brought the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli control. Their goal then, and their long term goal now, is the elimination of any Jewish government or presence in Palistine, all of it, from the Jordan to the sea.

There are quite a few problems with this op-ed peice.
1. The author refuses to accept that there already is a Palestinian country that is 90%+ Palestinian and is composed of 75% of the land: Jordan.
2. France had no real attachment to Algeria. The "Occupied Territories" are part of Israel and contain not only the defensible positions, but also the holy sites. Moreover, the so called settlements, are in many cases the reintroduction of 3000+ year old communities expelled by the Arabs in their genocidal campaing from 1929-67. There was a Jewish community in Hebron for 1500 years before Mohammed was born. The French were fighting for a colony. Israel is fighting for its homeland.