If I were president, I'd announce to the world that we are going to support Israel in taking whatever means are necessary to find and eradicate Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian terrorists. The first step should be hanging Arafat. He's had it coming for the last 50 years.

The Paletstinians are being fed a continuous diet of pie in the sky by the terrorists. Maybe the Sherman option is in order. Cut off the aid to the Palestinians and make its restoration conditional on ending terrorism. What they need to understand is that their lives will be better if they receive the Jews as deliverers of economic progress and prosperity than as enemies. If they were to leave the area tomorrow, the Palestinians move back and the whole nation would be back to its pre-1945 poverty within 10 years. Of course, that would apply to the entire Arab world, because without the Jews, there would be no reason for our huge aid payments to Egypt and support from other Arab states. Maybe they could get help from the Saudis and Iranians, but I doubt it.