It seems that the government of Israel wants the country to "live by the
sword" and the majority of the people are backing them. When reading
articles like this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3556593.stm

I can´t but hope that Israel also "dies by the sword". It´s leaders have
since the murder of Rabin destroyed all hope of at least a relatively just
peace settlement and have succeeded in killing of some 3700 people by
now. And what do they want? Decades of war, of course, with endless
victims on both sides.

Major western powers are totally incapable - not by their capabilities,
but because of their lack of will (killing some 20 000 Iraqis seems to
be easy job compared to opposing Israel) - to stop this madness and
force a just peace settlement. In fact they are pretty much doing
everything to ensure that the endless war that the Israelis seem to
enjoy so much - or at least which their current leadership seems to be
so proud of - continues without end in sight. Israel seems to be for
western countries what cows are to Hindus. Pity that they didn´t
exactly have this kind of view of the Jews some 65 years ago.

In a way, Palestinians are also victims of the Holocaust. Because of it
Israel can do whatever it´s leaders want. And for 37 years they have
wanted - except for a short interlude - to be cruel oppressors that
have the whole world on it´s knees before them.

But in the end Israel´s current leadership and it´s backers in other
countries are with each new atrocity digging not the grave of
independent state of Palestine, but the grave of the state of Israel.