I was born in Israel and lived there all my life till 2006. Ironically, it was often the efforts towards peace that escalated violence: The 1992 Oslo Accords were followed by the suicide bus bombings of the 90s, the 2000 Camp David summit resulted in the suicide cafe/mall/club/etc bombings of the early 00s, the withdrawal from Gaza facilitated Hamas' rise to power and so on.

All this isn't to turn this to a yet another online Mid East flame war, nor to claim that Israel doesn't share the blame for what's happening or that Palestinians aren't suffering at least as badly - just to note that anyone from a conflict area will tell you life are much more complicated than "a little more effort towards peace" ;)

Your comment is completely irrelevant. Did you even read the article? "Israelification" is being presented as a goal, not as a criticism.

I couldn't agree more, but this comment isn't relevant to this discussions at all. You should have avoided adding it.

It's sad that you think the two are mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately, world peace has never been attainable. Ask History.