When the pro-Israeli Rightists come down so heavily criticizing the book, it must be good! Will add it to my shopiing cart this weekend now. :) Captain, Another important element in peace processes is also luck. There are certain things one can do to make things happen as one wishes, but there are other things about which one can only do is pray and hope. All three oif the conditions that I have enlisted above, mostly, fall under the "luck" category. For instance, you and I cannot predict, let alone work towards, creating the governments of preference in either Israel, or Palestine, or the US. Even the ones in positions of influence may not be able to do much on this regard. However, what one can do is ones those conditions are created, impress upon the respective parties to act urgently so as not to miss the opportunity. That said, creating conditions for a hardline government in Israel is made easy by the election of a hardline goverment in PLO, and vice versa. Hamas has been doing well in the recent past with winning over the hearts and minds of Palestinian people, so I would hope that would give rise to hardline government in Israel too. I wouldn't mind letting Iran and Syria meddle a bit more in the area too, for that also helps give rise to radicalism. I would not fear radicalism taking stronger hold once a radical goverment is in place -- it is quite different being an insurgent on the streets from residing in a power house. Once in government, and once they get to feel the global factors that help shape domestic policies, radical leadership would soon realize that they'd have no choice but to moderate themselves. Hamas is facing a similar quandary, and so did the Maoists of Nepal. So, one way to make the radicals realize the reality is to help them get a taste of governance too. Of course, everything must have roots in a true desire -- among the people -- for peace too. No one can help them on that regard -- the desire for peace must come from within before any external factors can play a positive role in any peace process. Here too, one can only hope and pray.