Even the NYT has realized that blindly supporting Ariel Sharon's lunacy may be not the best possible policy.

To be just, workable and sustainable, any peace plan will have to divide that land into two coherent territories that are defensible and economically viable. The presence of more than 250,000 Israeli settlers scattered across the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights, leaving aside the added complications of East Jerusalem, make that division immeasurably harder.

Incidentally adding the colonisers in East Jerusalem takes their numbers to more like 400,000.