I think dialogue and personal friendships are good, but there is a limit to how far they can go while the conflict continues to go on. You discuss the good relations of Israelis with the bedouins of Sinai in the link to Michael Totten blog. But can good relations last when the extensions of those tribes who live in the Negev and serve in the Israeli army get kicked off their traditional grazing lands by that same army? and when they have their lands plowed over every time they try to plant something to make sure that they never start to imagine that they just might have some rights to this "eternally Jewish land" that they will have to vacate once some Jewish "super citizens" of Israel find some use for it? I don't want to be negative here. And I know that if a majority of Israelis shared your voting habits, Israel wouldn't behave in this way. But it's impossible to completely isolate ourselves from what's happening "on the ground" (on both sides, I'm sure). You know that I support dialogue and personal contacts and even friendships. But a regional peace settlement, and an equality statute for Arab Israelis, are absolutely needed before Arabs and Jewish Israelis can truly interact as friendly neighbors.