Having it both ways

In depth coverage of the Palestine-Israel conflict will tell you that this looks awfully like Northern Ireland.
We will struggle for years to establish peace and it probably won't happen in my life time. Amidst the mixture of strange bedfellows, even stranger compromises, inevitable tragedies and occasional moments of great humanity we will asymptotically approach something that resembles peace. Like calculus we will approach but never quite reach it!
It begs the question about why we can't cut the middle bit and go straight to the end....this is naivety in the extreme. Naivety but our hope.
In the end the allegedly "most democratic country on earth" must accept and validate the process of democracy which elects a HAMAS party government. The US actually has in its power at this time the possibility to be able to bring immediate peace by effecting this transition with generosity and speed. That these won't be forthcoming seems inevitable, sad but inevitable.