The Israeli people need to come together and overrule the Zionists, it's as simple as that. Israel is never going to disappear and I'm fully convinced that nobody wants that. I think there is a lot of propaganda work at play to make it look that way but even Ahmadinejad's words didn't ever suggest that. I would suppose that you are intelligent enough to know that but I'm not sure you are fair enough. Sincerely Rob, from the world's POV the Americans are very jaded on this issue and the world thinks that if the US would allow a policy of fairness, the UN could end this problem overnight nearly.
You have to understand that in Israel there are many different factions. Hardliners want it their way, the moderates want it their way, and so on. I agree that there is a lot of anti-Israeli rhetoric going around and while I would agree that some of that is purely political, you have to put yourself in the shoes of Israel. Israel has been almost constantly invaded since it was created, they have no choice but to take such rhetoric seriously.
As for the UN. The UN is part of the problem in regards to Israel. If it was not for the United States backing Israel in the UN, Israel would have already been overtaken.
For example:
1) Of 10 emergency special sessions called by the U.N. General Assembly (GA), six have been about Israel. No emergency sessions have been held on the Rwandan genocide, ethnic cleaning in the former Yugoslavia, or the two decades of atrocities in Sudan.
2) A series of anti-Israel resolutions are passed each year by the GA.
3) The U.N. Human Rights Council, which replaced the Commission on Human Rights in March 2006, has been no better than its hopelessly ineffective predecessor, with Israel remaining the most consistent target for unjustified vilification and demonization.
4) For decades Israel was the only member nation consistently denied admission into a regional group. The Arab states continue to prevent Israeli membership in the Asian Regional Group, Israel's natural geopolitical grouping. As a result, Israel sought entry into the Western and Others Group (WEOG) and in May 2000 was granted admission to that regional group in New York, but not in Geneva, the seat of several U.N. bodies and subsidiary organizations. Israel's full participation in the U.N., therefore, is still limited and it is restricted from participating in U.N.-Geneva based activities.
For the UN to solve any problem, the UN must first actually allow Israel to act as a full member of the UN.
ON a positive note, I think that the US now realizes that a lot of the woes of terrorism would also come to an end if it just took a fair policy line toward the question. A fair solution and then a very hardline peacekeeping force to make sure it's not destroyed again. If that was to happen then I could easily agree to a total condemnation of the offenders.
A big part of the problem with why Bin Laden dislikes the United States is because of our policies in Saudi Arabia. The fact that we had soldiers stationed there and the areas they were stationed he viewed as completely unacceptable. To send in a huge peacekeeping force might cause more problems that it would solve, and I do not think Israel would allow it. Now I am all for it if they end the conflict, but to blame Israel for the problems is wrong. Israel has been continuously invaded, regularly bombed by extremists, and undergoes rocket attacks regularly as well. They are concerned about their survival, and that issue is one that must be discussed when trying to solve this problem.
Further, there are many groups among the Palestinians who are arguing over the solution. Neither group is one unified front, you have to understand all of the different dynamics going on in each group. Peace talks have showed signs of success before, and then rocket attacks or bombings begin again, because elements of each group do not want what the peace is shaping up to be.