==but, the talk of Israel's surrender sure was premature
Israel is surrenderin to the PLO even as I write this (at te so-called peace talks...READ: Surrender talks). That does not mean, however, that Israel will ever be defeated. Having said that, innocent Israelis continue to be killed almost everyday by the PLO and their allies. Just because Israel cant be defeated militarily does not mean that we sould become complacent in the face of unspeakable evil.
See the following links for more--TTS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220747/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252955/posts
While I admit that your knowledge of the situation on the ground in Israel is probably more intimate than mine, I am not willing to concede that "Israel is busy surrendering to the PLO even as we speak". They are playing necessary niceties with them. In that sense, it is a poker game where Israel is guided by their considerable gray matter, while the Pallies are guided by their spleens and glands. It can look for all the world, at any given time, like the Izzies are being "taken"; but, in fact, they hold ALL THE CARDS, w/o exception. That's how I see it from here. And when you never lose, it's not gambling.