Will this increase or decrease the likelihood of terrorist actions in America, Europe and the rest of the world?

If you were a member of a family murdered in this conflict, would you be seeking revenge?

Should Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert, be tried for war crimes if or when this conflict comes to an end?

What will the price of oil be in 4 weeks time?

you should stand for president of the Rambling Association .... you'ld bore them all to death and be elected unopposed

He'd desecrate the countryside with his vileness :)


"The average Egyptian is not in favour of support for Israel. hopefully that might change if there is a major change in government. "

There's nothing you'd love more (apart form nuclear strikes on Israel and the killing of Jews everywhere) than Egypt declaring war against Israel yet again.

Peace has to come from both sides making compromises based on growth of trust, and yet the hatred filled hay parrot et al want to see the end of the PA in the West Bank, even though the latter clearly recognise the need to compromise.

ITLOB - BOTH sides need to compromise and significantly at that ..... unfortunately, even if much is going on behind the scenes (quite likely), there are a variety of outside parties pulling strings for whom a sustainable peace in the region would NOT be a satisfactory outcome

Hays,

Agreed with most of your evaluation.

cynic,
Agreed.
I don't think Netanyahu and certainly not Liebermann have the statesmanship or foresight that Begin had when he made peace with a willing Egypt and Jordan.
Of course it was easier then as Israel didn't have a hostile entity intermingled on its borders as with the West Bank. Personally I'm very hopeful having seen the willingness of the current Abbas administration to face reality. If that can be maintained and if the current attempts to gain international recognition proceed moderately successfully then there is more pressure on the current Israeli government to compromise more. Maybe even that Palestinian attempt at a peaceful political and diplomatic campaign will engender a growing sense of trust in the Israeli body politic and the electorate.

one can live in hope even if not great expectation, though it eventually came to pass in Ireland, despite some pretty appalling treatment to the locals going back to mediaeval days - Henry V and prob earlier if i remember my history correctly

Is there a bit of a love fest going on with Haystack and Fred?
Im just sat here wondering who plays which role ?

Never mind Wondering how about thinking for a change.

LOL Ruth :)

now now, no need to get bitchy .... or perhaps you think Ruth doesn't know the off-side rule either

and as a very rare poster, no doubt you have been spending all that time thinking a lot, so what was your carefully considered conclusion?

Since parrot merely.......err.......parrots and freddie few brains takes the supercilious superiority position, I think you can work that out...... :)

Ruth's got more balls than most men :)

just because she's got a pulse, there's no need to get overexcited

lol

Think I hit a raw nerve with Stan, I used to think it was Stan and Fred in a love fest,
Obviously Fred has moved onto a younger guy now and its still raw for Stan

aw bless ;-)

Stan is it true that Fred shouts his own name out when hes coming?

Has somebody risen from the dead?

Fred, lets get one thing straight (pardon the pun)

I will still be alive long after youve started pushing up daisies,

"Think I hit a raw nerve with Stan, I used to think it was Stan and Fred in a love fest,
Obviously Fred has moved onto a younger guy now and its still raw for Stan

aw bless ;-)

Stan is it true that Fred shouts his own name out when hes coming?"

Oh brilliant. Life has been breathed into this thread :)



"Has somebody risen from the dead?"

That's what he thinks everytime he looks in the mirror.
You can spot the delusional ones a mile away......

'e baint Fred; 'im be that lazarus bloke wot i 'ear ain't too good with the second coming either

"In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Syrian President Bashar Assad suggested that the pressure he will face from the Syrian people to institute reforms will be less than that faced by embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak because he has not pursued close diplomatic relations with the U.S. and Israel, a position that he said puts Arab leaders at odds with their citizens."

This is part of the problem with Egypt. The peace treaty with Israel was not done willingly by Egypt. It was done willingly by Egypt's rulers.

Abbas in the West Bank should be gone soon as well.

you mean like UK signing up to the Treaty of Rome? ..... so if you change the gov't previously ratified treaties are invalid? .... an interesting thought (sorry, you don't do that too well, so try statement) which i'm sure will be latched onto throughout the world