Well I'm not a historian, but I do have a long memory. The old Clinton peace talks were going along at there usual pace, as Bill wanted to settle the ongoing mess, so he'd have something positive to say about his administration.
Then Sharon took a little walk to visit a mutually important religious area for both Israeli's and Palestanian's.
That ticked the Palestanian's off and they started attacking Israeli patrol and citizen's with rocks, rifles and mortors.
Tit-for-tat since the fall of 2000.
I wonder where the PLA security forces were when that started the current cycle of events? Porbably collecting rocks for the street warriors to throw.
If some group did that stuff to us, we'd kick their butts too. I tend to think that Saudi Arabia is a big place, why not house the Palestanian's there and settle the whole mess?
Oh that doesn't get rid of the Israeli's does it?
So, the Arabs need to learn to live with it or get their butts kicked continually.