You asked me the same basic question earlier and answered it yourself. Now you've done the same thing again! What's up with you?
What you fail to comprehend, is that this entire ME conflict has developed over the last 50+ years and is a significantly more complicated then you're making it out to be. My President has put his prestige and the good name of the USA on the line. Bush has something to lose in the short term and he knows it too. I'm standing with PresBush and hoping for the best.
>>>Israel could stop responding to terrorism today and not respond again for six months. It wouldn't make a tinker's damn worth of difference. The terrorism would continue.
You don't know if that would be the case. In the last three years, cessation of hostilites hasn't six months. But this is a two way effort. The Pali's have got to cool their jets and get onboard the peace plan. That means somehow, they've got to convince and if necessary, force Hamas, Hezbolla, Islamic Jihad and the rest of the terrorist groups to cease all attacks and hostilities against Israel.
>>> ... why should Israel withhold responses to terrorism.?
Because Israel knows, they can't continue on this way indefinitely. Their economy is seriously suffering and the Israeli people are tired of having their fellow citizens killed by suicide/homicide killers.
I'm trying to look at this in the most optimistic way I can. But I know the chances of a lasting peace are going to be difficult to achieve.