Yours is an excellent statement on the psychology that drives Arab and European attitudes towards Israel. To round it out, we need to consider the psychology of the liberals who place such faith in negotiations. They have an extremely unrealistic view of human nature, and think human beings are simply blank slates to be written on by cultural interventions (ideally, managed by themselves). In their view, hatred is simply ignorance, easily cured by some sort of educational process, or through imposition of a solution devised by intelligent people of good will (this is their self-assessment), that will lead to "confidence - building." In reality, Arab hatred comes from a deep sense of inferiority. Envy coupled with helpless inadequacy is its source. This obviously is not amenable to benign interventions of diplomats, concessions of this or that item. Just as the Arabs cling to their crazed fantasy of a new "final solution," so do the liberals cling to their deeply erroneous view of man and of human relations, and in a way it is and has been just as big an impediment toward moving to some solution as Arab intransigence and paranoid fantasy. Any realistic solution would have to involve moral clarity about what is going on, coupled with the use of force to defeat and remove terrorists.
Thucydides' Post #31...Reality gone bye bye.