Arafat and the Palestinian question.

George Walker Bush and John Kerry are more likely to put a bullet
to their head than to force Israel to withdraw all of West Bank. And
Israeli leadership knows this.

The other participants in the "quartet" are either paralyzed by
internal strife and lack of spine like the EU, or float indefferently
on in the stream that is USA`s policy in Palestine.

Only continued, serious losses of boths soldiers and settlers in the West
Bank or trade embargo would force the citizens of Israel, if not the
leadership, to accept that Israel needs to end the occupation of the
whole of West Bank, after which the leadership might follow them.