Why the Israel and Palestine situation will never be settled.

Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis, many of them Jewish settlers, rallied tonight in the center of Jerusalem and vehemently denounced the prospect of a Palestinian state as sketched by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

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In Gaza, the militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both said that for now, they were not willing to stop fighting against Israel despite Mr. Abbas' call for an end to the "armed intifada," or uprising, which began in September 2000.

"This plan is a disaster for the Palestinians, it does not deal with our problems," Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader in Gaza City, said of the road map.

I don't know if the Road Map is much of a solution or not, and I don't know enough about the situation in general (trying to remedy that soon), but it really appears these people just can't get along.[/incredible understatement]

Then there's: Sharon sticks to script in front of Bush - but the backtracking has already begun, and that doesn't sound good.