nice post..I see your point of view.
I will respond only to this line "Israel can not afford a long guerrilla war." That seems to be what the Arab states that support Hezbollah and Hamas are counting on. I believe it is a mis-calculation on their part..a very sad mis-calculation because it prolongs the deaths and sufferings of both sides.
Imagine for a moment that you are an Israeli...you live on a small area of land, surrounded by enemies who are sworn to your destruction and being "wiped from the pages of history".
In the face of such enemies what would you do? I expect you would do much as the Israeli's have done. They will not trade land for peace..after all, what sort of "peace" would it really be, given the hatred of their enemies..only a demand for more and more land..of which they have little now. They do as they must..they absorb the endless blows of the suicide bombers, the rockets launched at their civilian populations, even the massacre of Arab workers in Israel running over people and cars with large equipment, and every other imaginable means of terrorizing the Israeli people.
The Israeli's then respond with missles, fences, embargos, and sometimes excesses of their own. The hatred is not just on one side.
Your quote that Israel cannot afford a long guerilla war....what choice do they have but to afford and to endure?? What choice indeed?? The only alternative is to give up their struggle, and be wiped out or flee. Surely you can see that they will not do the latter.......therefore, the only course of action is to fight the guerilla war with the responses that seem appropriate.
The killings on both sides will go on as long as the Arab states believe they will inevitably win a guerilla war. The Israeli's have no real choice.
