Will they ever learn?

From The New York Times:

ALMOST a year has passed since Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, time enough to draw lessons from the conflict and reflect on its consequences.

Last week, Israel’s Winograd Commission published an interim report scrutinizing Israel’s conduct during what it called the country’s most recent military “campaign.” But the report failed to draw the most essential lesson from the July war and the wars that preceded it: military action does not give the people of Israel security. On the contrary, it compromises it. The only way for the people of Israel and the Arab world to achieve stability and security is through a comprehensive peace settlement to the overarching Arab-Israeli conflict.

You can read the rest if you want to, but it is just as nonsensical is this bit.

Bottom line is this. How do you negotiate and compromise with people whose ONLY goal is to destroy you? The stated objective of the Arab side in the Arab/Israel conflict is to destroy the state of Israel and either kill the Jews or dirve them back into dispersion.

The Arab position has never waiverd from that and their stated policy on negotiation and compromise is that they are only to be entered into in order to buy time and gain strength and that they are never to be considered binding.

Where is the "middle ground" that you can meet on with people who believe that your very existence is an offense to God and that their sacred duty is to remove you from the earth?