Wishful Thinking and OCD

The German initiative starts with a cease-fire in the
current violence.

This would then be followed by a withdrawal of Israeli
troops, an early declaration of a Palestinian state, an end
to Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas and phased
talks on such tricky issues as Israel's borders and the
status of Jerusalem, the German government said.

Also, it provides for international peacekeepers
patrolling a buffer zone between Israel and the
Palestinian areas.

This is about as realistic as John Lennon's "Imagine." There is no peace nor will there be until we either get rid of Arafat and the panoply of Arab terrorists operating in the vicinity.

Nobody has any new ideas, so they keep bringing up old, failed ones. It seems to be an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The old "international peacekeepers" who were so effective in Bosnia-Herzegovina are back for a return engagement, without, we should hope, an American component. If you liked the truck-bombing of American marines in Beirut, you'll love stationing them in the Palestinian areas.