re: Israeli Arab Citizenship has been offered for nearly 40 years ... WTF???

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The falsity of this argument can be easily proven by taking it to a logical extreme. Suppose Israel were to demand, as a precondition for negotiations, that the PLO not only accept their existence as a Jewish state, but total demilitarization, Israeli control over borders, and and final borders at the current settlement walls, with zero pullouts. The current map would be the final status map. No land swaps, and Palestine would exist as a state only in the discontinuous beige areas.

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right because the civil rights movement didn't get anywhere without rockets, or ghandi.

Thats dumb. They should have demilitarized years ago. They would have all the worlds sympathy, and leave Israel with no excuses.

Better yet I will say that if they demilitarized Israel would give them their land, and lift the blockade.

Thats as realistic as thinking Hamas will be satisfied with a two nation solution.

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right because the civil rights movement didn't get anywhere without rockets, or ghandi.

Thats dumb. They should have demilitarized years ago. They would have all the worlds sympathy, and leave Israel with no excuses.

Better yet I will say that if they demilitarized Israel would give them their land, and lift the blockade.

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Demilitarization, in the context of negotiations, refers to the final status of Palestine, not its current state. Fatah doesn't have an army. The al-Aqsa brigades have been a non-entity in the West Bank since 2007. There have been no major uprisings there since the end of the Second Intifada. The West Bank is demilitarized.

Since that time, the settlements have expanded, the walls have gone up, the price tag attacks have proceeded with impunity. They have gotten no concessions, instead their negotiating partners have gotten harder (Barak to Sharon to Olmert to Netanyahu) and preconditions have gotten taller.

You may think the population of Gaza and the Hamas politicians remain hardline and militant purely because of Islamic radicalism and spite. That probably plays some role. But a lot of it is also because they watched the PLO and Fatah go down the same transition from terrorists in the 1970s (back then, remember, they were skyjacking and bombing left and right) to moderate negotiators in the 2000s, embodied by Abbas, and have gotten basically nothing for it. Instead Israel just keeps upping the asking price each round of negotiations while carving out more land. The window of what is "acceptable" gets rolled farther and farther down. Put yourself in the shoes of a West Bank negotiator for the last 25 years.

"Okay, you've accepted the two-state solution (PLO Declaration, 1988), now accept some settlements will stay. Okay, you've accepted some settlements will stay (Oslo, 2000), now renounce violence. Okay, you've renounced violence (Sharm el-Shiekh, 2005), now give up on the right of return. Okay, you've given up the right of return (Annapolis, 2008), now accept some Israeli early warning stations in the Jordan Valley. Oh, you're fine with those after all? (This was the issue Kerry focused on in 2014) Now recognize us as a Jewish state!"

These are all things that the PLO had previously refused to concede, that it has conceded to Israel during or before negotiations, and have been taken as given during subsequent rounds of negotiations. Meanwhile, what has Israel given them in return? They've gotten one transitional deal from them, Oslo, which Netanyahu basically lit on fire after his first term (he says this, outright, in his famous "America is easily moved" video) and an army of settlement expansion.

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Thats as realistic as thinking Hamas will be satisfied with a two nation solution.

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Like that time they said they would be in 2006? Or in 2011? Or in 2013?

Let me ask you this, what makes you think Likud wants a two-state solution? I don't mean their words, I mean their actions.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are all backing Israel on wipping out the Qatar/Muslim Brotherhood backed Hamas, bcause they understand that the Muslim Brotherhood/ISIS coalition is dangerous to the whole region, and to the overthrow of their governments.

PER CNN, Why Obama didn't understand that the M.B. was a terrorist organization is beyond me, he invited them to the W.H.

Hamas and the M.B. are closely affiliated.

I saw that Palestinian parody a few days go; it's actually pretty funny.

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Unless Israel wants to cross the historical Rubicon and engage in an actual genocide or a mass ethnic cleansing (which they aren't, their moral compasses are not yet that warped

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I think it is dangerous to assume that any population on Earth is above this. The idea that one race has a better moral compass than others is the beginning of a slippery slope that leads to it.