Talks 'Tween Israel and the Palestinians Fated to Fail Due to Irreconcilable Differences

Wesley Pruden, the anti/non-Buruma, articulates them pithily here:

The Palestinians won't settle for anything less than all Israelis dead, or shipped off to somewhere far away. The Israelis, unreasonable as they may seem in the salons of the West, are determined not to settle for anything less than survival.