In today's New York Times an editorial calls for a cease fire between Israel and Hamas.

What the NY Times and their best and brightest pundits, along with those in our not so bright government are saying today is that peace can be negotiated with the Palestinians (Hamas, Fatah), the answer a two-state solution, and this is achievable with negotiations, the only way to guarantee Israel's long-term security.

The fallacy in this thinking is my kind way of saying these bozos who think that they know best are either fools or stupid; probably both.

For sixty some odd years every effort to make peace with the Palestinians have failed. Israel has compromised her borders, given land up that compromises their security, and allowed the Palestinians in Gaza to attempt a first try at self-rule, what they will have to do if rewarded for their violence with their own state.

And the Palestinian's response is simply to execute more violence.

Is there any question that the Palestinians have failed to show they are capable of successfully leading themselves? They are thugs, street people. Even their most educated consistently choose violence over peaceful solution. There is no evidence that this reality will change under any conditions offered to resolve the conflict.

Now the world, and the NY Times, wants Israel to back-off from their self-defending incursion into Gaza. They say it is the only way to guarantee Israel's long-term security. Ha! We've been here before, folks. Anyone care to count how many times? Backing down has never worked and it will not work. Israel should stay the course and finish off Hamas and then go after Fatah.

But the West wants to broker a deal. First, every American president wants to be the one to have ended the Israel-Palestinian conflict. That's ego. But is asking Israel to cut a deal with the Palestinians a fair request? Would America make such a deal with Osama bin Laden? Hardly. The leadership of the Palestinians are nothing less than Osama bin Laden's. Fatah is the same.

Here's the change that's needed in order to broker a peaceful solution between Israel and the Palestinians. The world should tell the Palestinians enough. Before the Palestinians will be rewarded with any chance for self-rule ~ their own state, which I have said I oppose for the truly healing peaceful co-existence ~ they must accept Israel's right to exist. They must lay down their arms. They must elect civilized leaders. They must stop training their children to hate the Jewish people. They must end the training of their children to kill Jews.

The West's  handling of the Israel-Palestine question has been self-serving. It has been a monumental failure because the West comes from the place that the Israelis and the Palestinians are equal. They are not. The Palestinians bear arms for the sole purpose of destroying the Jews. The Israeli's raise arms in self-defense.

Moving the Palestinians to a plot of land they will call their own is just geography. It will not stop their hatred of the Jews and Israel. The Palestinian's hatred of the Jews has little to do with the State of Israel.

Although Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them, the PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.

This hatred will not go away. It is fundamental to who these people who call themselves Palestinians are as Islamists. Giving them their own state will do nothing but afford them the opportunity to build their own army and annihilate the bane of their existence, the Jewish people.

Of course, behind the West's thinking are geopolitical concerns. As long as the Palestinian issue is unresolved, the United States will be subject to the wrath of the Arabs and their chief weapon, oil.

Which is why what the West needs to do is stand behind Israel 100 percent, give the Palestinians goals to reach before anyone so much as considers rewarding them with their own state, wean completely from the West's dependence upon the Arab's oil, and send in the U.N. to keep the peace while the Palestinians exhibit that they can act like civilized people.

If the Palestinians continue to act like children, they should be treated as such. Children do not get rewarded for bad behavior, nor should the Palestinians.

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