Both groups of settlers somehow contrived, despite these goals, to believe that they wanted nothing but tolive in peace with their 'neighbors'- neighbors, of course, because they had already taken some of their land.And sure, they did want peace, just as Hitler wanted peace: on his terms. The most casual survey of Israelipolitics indicates that mainstream, official, respectable Jewish opinion asserts an absolute right to Israel'spresent boundaries, and at the very least would never abandon the continually expanding settlements. What isconsidered extreme Jewish opinion, which asserts rights over the entire area occupied by Palestine, is not theIsraeli extreme. The far right in Israel claims a territory that stretches as far as Kuwait and southernTurkey. This matters, because, given Israel's fragmented politics, the extreme right wields a power out ofproportion to its numbers. The conclusion must be that Israel, as a collective entity, wants peace with allthe sincerity of, say, General Custer.