Yeah, MagiK, I do know why. 'Cause Israel's in the Old Boys Club.
Or maybe because it's hard to take a lot of the Palestinian arguments to heart with hezbollah, etc running amuck.
Look, your points about them being surrounded by enemies is well-taken. As is any statement regarding how difficult it must be to live with constant random terrorism, as we are beginning to find out.
I think what's best for all, if we want to try for peace between Israel and Palestine, if anything is possible at all, is the creation of a Palestinian state. In the modern day, political country boundaries and ethnic boundaries are too intertwined. We keep having problems between ethnic groups who got split up or crammed together under the same government during the redrawing of the maps of Europe and the Middle East upon the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Look at Serbia, Kosovo, etc. Same problem. Political boundaries that ignored ethnic boundaries. Fixable? Probably not.