At some point, I think Israel needs to send an unmistakable message that NO leader will be allowed to be a sponsor of terror.
So far, the Israelis have resisted the notion of taking Aerofat out for precisely that reason - that he would become a martyr of sorts and further inflame the Pallies, although it's difficult to imagine how much more incendiary they could be.
There has been an ongoing private debate over this very thing inside the Israeli government, but the "keep him alive" faction has won every time. Part of it is to not wish to appear to the other nations of the world as "barbaric," but Israel is not going to ever get to kiss THAT girl. The US is about the only true friend Israel has on the world stage.
Push is going to come to shove, I think, pretty soon on Aerophat as it becomes increasingly obvious that absolutely NOTHING Israel does will ever stop the Pally violence short of tremendously prejudicial brute force. The Pallies have known nothing but strife for pretty much all their lives - it's a normal situation for them. You have two entire generations whose entire existence has been lived in a self-perpetuating war...a war that they cannot possibly win. In fact, were they to actually "win" a war with Israel, they wouldn't know what to do. Fighting comes naturally to them, peace would be quite discomfiting. So they would, in that impossibly unlikely event, have to find a NEW enemy, any enemy, so as to resume "normalcy" (being engaged in a war).
The only real solution - now or 2000 years from now - is to put the Pallies down HARD, put Syria down HARD and push every last Pally into an occupied Syria/Lebanon, set 'em up a government and tell them to take it and make something of it or the place becomes a giant sheet of glass.
The first step is that Aerophat needs to have a terrible accident.
Michael