IMO, it's WAY past time for somebody to say some REAL words.......and mean them.
A group has taken responsiblity for this bombing -- Arafat's brigade. Dancing in the streets in the West Bank.
The real words have to come from Sharon. The real words have to come from the Knesset. The real words have to come internally.
If Israel will drop their own calls for a Palestinian state, then you may have a verbal change in Washington.
Now, that is not my policy. That is my understanding of what is going on internally in Tel Aviv as I read Israeli newspapers and government websites.
My policy would be to tell Sharon have at it... and we will stand with you. I would tell Arafat that his time has come and gone and it's time to meet Allah. I would tell the Palestinians they can have a state when they act like human beings and not animals.
Here, on these threads, we are calling for actions that the Israeli government is not ready to do because they sharply disagree. Some say you don't have peace because our armies are in the West Bank. Pull them out, you'll have peace. Others are saying... do that and we will be destroyed as a state. Israel is halt between two opinions. They have been since 1948... They need to make up their minds internally...