Now that we are there and what we did someone has to make amends for those people.

I think this is what Israel is doing now. Wouldn't you always knock on the door before entering?

From where? I know NOT from the US!

So they can get blown up instead of the Israelis? What will that accomplish?

What? We ARE the peacekeeping force!

What, a UN peacekeeping force, in their lovely powder blue helmets? What a joke!

This would definately be a mistake on the part of the United States. Sending in a peacekeeping force at this present time of warfare would simply put them in harm's way, and there effectiveness would be questionable. This can only be resolved by the two parties involved- not by a third party.

Why? So they can be murdered, too?

No. I doubt they will get any respect from both parties (Israel & Palestine) they will be ignored and killed. Just keep away.

No way, we should not send in a peacekeeping force into Israel. The only way we can do this is if all the parties involved sign a peace agreement. What I mean by all parties are groups like Hamas, the PLO and Israel actually meet and sign a peace accord. It would not be fair to have an international force be subjected to the occasional Hamas bomber. I don't even think sending in our troops there will solve the problem in the first place. It actually will exacerbate the problem if anything else. The Jews have probably the best trained military in the world; let them solve their own defense problems. We should step in if the parties require any assistance in mediating a solution to the problem. I think that a peacekeeping force will only give radical Islamic groups another target to hit. Our role in Israel-Palestinian conflict should be strictly diplomatic.

A prerequisite to sending a 'peacekeeping' force into any region is that the parties involved want peace. Sending them in otherwise would only provide target practice for the warring factions. Israel has a bad reputation for killing peacekeepers. Many Scandinavians have been 'murdered' by those bastards, and it would be a shame to lose anymore. The only way to have peace in that area is for both sides to work out an agreement, which isn't happening, or for one side to win and subjugate the other, which is the direction Israel has taken. However, this can not prevent terrorist acts like suicide bombers. Placing peace troops in the middle is only asking for lessons in futility. The rule of international law can be a guide line to offer remedies. One course of action should be to cut off military aid to either side and place an arms embargo on both. The US has become party to the violence there by funding Israel. The individual citizens of the world in that area have been held hostage long enough by war mongers that enslave soldiers and force them to participate in brutality. And the US is guilty of contributing to this form of madness. With all the power on their side, Israel only knows how to act with brute force. Without the military and financial support of the United States, Israel would be forced to act civil and solve their problems in a diplomatic process. Palestinians are using terrorism to counter the over whelming military supremacy of their oppressors, but, don't forget, Israel was founded on terrorism against the British occupation in the first place. So, terrorism is the proven tactic in that area, and peacekeepers can not prevent those acts any more then Israel's US backed military.

The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) are the only true peacekeeping forces that should be allowed in the region! Neither UN (United Nothings) nor the EU have shown anything that would make them to be a true peacekeeping force in the region. They have instead supported the arch terrorist Arafat.

doesn't the US got better things to do than get itself into troubles with them middle east. not only that they will be targets for bombings, but also in war with the arab nations, i don't see any reason for them to get involved in someone elses war.

Talk about walking into a no-win situation. Anyone who rates this higher than a "1" better have a good answer for these questions posed by Robert Kagan in a Washington Post editorial of April 18: "Let's say we get a peace agreement and we put the peacekeeping force on the ground between the Israelis and Palestinians. What happens when, despite all our best efforts, the occasional Hamas suicide bomber gets through anyway and commits the occasional massacre in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv? Count on it: This will happen. And what about when Hezbollah tries to use the new Palestinian state created by the peace settlement the way it now uses southern Lebanon, as a convenient place from which to launch Katyusha rockets at Israeli population centers? What do we do then?" It would seem we either have to (1) lead or sanction a war against the PLO and inflame all of the Arab world, or (2) hold Israel back from responding, and thereby become a shield for terrorists to hide behind. That's the last thing the US or NATO or the UN should want to be.