The Israeli-Palestinian “problem” is a manufactured problem that is pushed onto the global stage by certain .. Mahasattva refuses to even acknowledge that the racist aphartied state is even a "problem", even after numerous examples of israeli human rights abuses have been posted by myself, he then dismisses that as "biased reporting", not even bothering to refute them in anyway. FOr example it's not a problem when this families mother is snatched and deported to the Gaza strip for no apparent reason, or that Palestinians homes ae demolished, the farmland stolen or that they constantly harass them in so many other ways.. Then there's this business that Arafat was offered something in 2000 and he rejected it so therefore this whole thing is his fault. Lets be clear after 10 years of negotiations, there were 2 times when final status negotiations took place, 1 at camp david; this is where this very debatable 'offer' was made , and at Taba shortly thereafter-both times the negotiations were ended by first the US and then by Israel at Taba, the Palestinians have wanted to restart those negotiations where they left off ever since but the Israeli government has sought to buy time ever since..and of cource the question is why are there not final status negotiations now? The reason is that Israel avoids them because they refuse to end the occupation of the west bank, or anything even close to it-which is why the negotiations failed 10 years ago, despite Clintons and Ehud Baraks claims to the contrary-the reason those negotiations failed was because Ehud Barak had right wing parties in his government like Shas, and they were vetoing the necessary concessions needed to sign the deal.. The Palestinian authority did send an official delegation to the Geneva to finish the negotiations that had been in taba with the Israeli negotiators that had been at taba(these politicians like yossi beilen were now in opposition to Ariel Sharons government), at that point a (mock) deal was signed (The Geneva Accords), the point is here that the Palestinians are willing to sign that kind of a compromise but Israel is not .. and of cource the Arab initiative of 2002 has received no response .. The oppression of the Palestinians is not because of something that the Fatah or Hamas are doing or not doing, it's because the Israelis always have a right-wing government; blind american support for israel and the billions of dollars in aid that country gets anchors these governements.. if you remember the only reason there ever was an 'oslo peace process' was because GW Bush sr. blocked loan guarantees (just the loan guarantees, not the foreign aid) until israel agreed to somekind of a 'process'.