"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote

You took that statement out of context and you changed the
words to try to make it look like a black and white issue.
To me it isn't, I know fully well that the US has played
a vital role in UN history. WRT the Paliestine issue
it has failed so far.

Has anyone else succeeded? No.

Roadmap
Camp David II
Camp David I
Oslo
Arab League summit
etc, etc, all the way back to Napoleon.

You can't force a peace on two parties, where each has a significant number
of psycho's willing to disrupt that peace process at any and all cost.

If Arafat and his council were to make peace (real, binding, unconditional
peace- live and let live), at any cost, they'd be dead within a month.

Pete