The failures who regurgitate failed proposals do so as a matter of ego. If it finally works, they could salvage some of their prestige. The problem is that even the airy-fairy proposals put to the Arabs won’t be accepted. There is no way that Hamas would even contemplatetoning down its jihad rhetoric against Israel and the PA could not reverse its hostility to Israel, even if it wanted to, which if doesn’t, without losing legitimacy.

Has-beens like Ross can do themselves a favour by shutting up or finding a backbone admitting they were wrong and stating the obvious: the conflict is religious and not political and it will only end with either Israel or the Palestinian Arabs being destroyed. The question is whether Ross is on the side of the Jewish people or on the side of the Arabs and the internaitional community which would be overjoyed if Israel was extinguished and Jews were put back into their inferior positions in host societies.