I don't know that I need to spend much time defending the Zionist vision against the rantings of the legal representative of the PLO, but there is one line in today's opinion piece in the NY Times - Two Peoples, One State - that underlines the lack of understanding on the part of the Palestinian leadership (if they truly believe this to begin with).

Most Israelis recoil at the thought of giving Palestinians equal rights, understandably fearing that a possible Palestinian majority will treat Jews the way Jews have treated Palestinians.

Most Israelis don't want to live in a country with a Palestinian majority because they don't want Jews to be treated as they have been in every other Muslim Arab country, not because they would expect some kind of unique vengeance on the part of the Palestinians.

And when he uses the word "understandably" instead of "irrational" he's basically predicting that it would not be pleasant for the Jews sharing the same state - so why would they ever want to do it?