scoot ahead to the summer 2000 and they make the same argument to yasir arafat, and hit he says -- and he says i sign on the dotted line the radicals will kill me. full circle. no way to diminish the obstacles that benjamin netanyahu and the ministers will encounter on route. there is no shortage of people even within the government and the parties that will opposed to it. i sincerely believe if it goes to a referendum, the israeli people will overwhelmingly approve it. i think they would have approved it in 2000 and in 2008. i am not sure about the palestinian side. i have to be honest about that. i hope it would be the case they would support it as well. what is the american gemini helping the peace interest over the past 50 years? here you are asking the impossible conundrum. a couple of years ago when i could still write things like this, i wrote an op-ed called the paradox of prophecy. it was about the book of jonah. it is the shortest book in the bible. it tells the story of her profit who went to nineveh. if you do not repent, you will be destroyed. jonah realizes this is a no-w