And if the Palestinians don't do all asked of them, what will we do? Allow the Israelis to defend themselves? Some consulation. The Israelis should be free to defend themselves now. How many more ultimatums and false peace agreements must there be to make the point? wake up and smell the terrorists! We wouldn't tolerate any of this, and we shouldn't insist that the Israelis tolerate it. I'm surprised, I'd have thought your reaction to this speech would have been more along the lines of "About damn time!"
My take on it was that the Palestinians could cease and desist immediately, or the dogs of war would be unleashed. I would agree that the Israelis should have taken more forceful action before now - it's not clear to me whether they've held back on our account or because of other factors.
The Israelis have been held back by us. We introduced 2 UN resolutions demanding that Israel pull back from its military response 5-6 weeks ago; Powell made numerous statements calling on Israel to restrain its response, and Bush did the same.