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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

But the Palestinians kicked him in the teeth, walking away from a sweetheart deal with no coherent explanation, and then lying about why there was no agreement. It became clear that they didn't ever want an agreement of any sort. Their leaders want nothing short of the total annihilation of Israel.

It would not be difficult to see why there is no peace progress in sight knowing the zionism doctorines.
You have got the Zionism’s chief prophet Theodor Herzl confided in his diary that he did not favor sharing Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote in 1895:

to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it any employment in our own country … Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

You have got Lord Balfour who was responsible for Balfour declaration in 1917 which promised Zionists a national home in Palestine.who said in a secret memorandom submitted to the British cabinet :

For in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country [i.e., we do not accept the principle of self-determination for the Arabs of Palestine] … the four great powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land …

And then you have got David Ben Gurion the leader of dominant Labor Zionist movement who said in October 1937:

My assumption is that … a partial Jewish state is not an end but a beginning … and it will serve as a powerful lever in our historical efforts to redeem the whole of the country.

whose policies were inline with Hertzel's goals to prompt the twin principals of “Redemption of the Land” and “Hebrew Labor”, which took as their premise the idea that Jews needed to separate themselves from the native population by being entirely self-reliant in palestine Jews could both “cure” themselves of their tainted Diaspora natures and deprive the Palestinians of the opportunity to subsist in their own homeland.
This official policy apparently seemed not enough to make a pure ethnic state ,and made Israel leadership developed a plan for ethnic cleansing under cover of war. During the 1948 war the new state of Israel was emptied of at least 80 per cent of its indigenous population.

In physically expelling the Palestinian population, Ben Gurion responded to the political opportunities of the day and recalibrated the Labor Zionism of Herzl. In particular he achieved the goal of displacement desired by Herzl while also largely persuading the world through a campaign of propaganda that the exodus of the refugees was mostly voluntary. In one of the most enduring Zionist myths, convincingly rebutted by modern historians, we are still told that the refugees left because they were told to do so by the Arab leadership.

How possibly palestinians could reach to an agreement with such a ravenous and rapacious peace partner??

So as you may see the aforementioned article was not trying to indicate who started the six days war ,as if it were it was an easy task to,rather what has made an Apartheid regime out of zionists plans for having a jewish state.

Palestinians got to know why should their homeland become the solution for the Jewish tragedy in Europe? why should 57%percentage of Mandatory Palestine's land be allocated for the Jewish state with a percentage of approximately 37% of palestinian inhibitants?? of which they had own 7% when they were 11% back in 1922 under a USA backing plan? and guess what?? 78% percentage of the palestin land was bestowed to the jews after 1967 war.
Please read Truman and Israel

The incredible shrinkage of palestin would tell you why achieving a peace agreement has become such an illusion.

They assumed that the Palestinians will remain passive during their slow eradication. The historical evidence most certainly shows that they will not.

Enumerating the times you used the word "terrorist" for describing palestinians ,reminds me of this quote by Ehud Barak: Prime minister of Israel from 1999 – 2001 ""If I were a young Palestinian, it is possible I would join a terrorist organization".