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Fine, many if not most of the Jewish settles are upstanding, moral, and friendly people. I know that to be true. But their profile doesn't change the basic fact that peace will one day be predicated on two peoples sharing a finite amount of land. Without that sharing, and implied separtion, Israel will remain in charge of the lives of 2 million people who have neither citizenship nor voting rights. For all of Riskin's menschlichkeit, and he has plenty, he still retains an upper hand when it come to his Arab neighbors -- when it come to water rights, when it comes to military protection, when it comes property rights, when it comes to all the rights and privileges accruing to a citizen of a country as opposed to aliens, legal and otherwise. Unless Israel is willing to extend citizenship to Palestinian Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, that inequity will always be as much a part of the settler story as all of their good deeds. Thank you, Alan, for reminding us of the humanity of the settlers. But unless many of these settlers are willing to give up their homes and their advocacy of a "greater Israel," they will part of the problem in the Middle East, not part of the solution.