Begin compromised.
Olmert comprimised.
Barak Compromised
Rabin compromised
….

And Israel received a pieces of papers that are not worth much
and some missiles, bombs, suicides, just for the hack of it.

The other side (palestinians and arabs) want replacement,
meaning, them, instead of Israel. It has never been a land issue but rather religious and cultural one. And this unfortunately is not solvable, flare ups like a volcano will take place over and over almost ad infinitum until one day the mountain will explodes its top and then peace will rain over the land.

According to analysts who know them better than I, the composition of the Likud faction is far more extreme than ever before, both religiously and with regard to opposing any semblance of Palestinian rights. And while Likud numbers are down, if you add Lieberman’s 11 and Bennett’s 12, that’s 23 seats to the right of even Likud, far more than ever before.

I don’t know much about the delegation swept in with Lapid, and I’m told that several of them are actually quite dovish — but also that others are much closer to Likud or even Lieberman in their diplomatic outlook. And I noted that Lapid made a point of campaigning in Ariel, a the city that truly makes Palestinian independence impossible, and made strong statements against allowing any Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem.
Moreover, he quickly and strongly ruled out the wishful thinking of some on the left for an alliance to block a right-wing government, because, he said, such alliance with the so-called “Arab parties” is unthinkable.

As long as that kind of thinking dominates the so-called “center” — which surely includes Labor (15 seats is progress? Oy!), whose leader campaigned on social issues only, thus tacitly accepting the right’s anti-Palestinian outlook, Livni and Kadima — then the far right-messianic alliance is sure to dominate, as long as Washington lets them, anyway.