Also, as an IT manager what would make or break your decision on whether to consider moving your infrastructure into an outsourced environment, whether simply colocation or cloud computing.

I have an unbiased opinion on the cloud itself; however I fail to understand how companies rush to put their data in the cloud without even considering the pro’s and con’s. – Both of a cloud and non cloud solution.

Do your homework before you buy! This goes for all solutions, and services, and the Cloud should not be exempt from that rule.

The Cloud may be an answer to some things, but it is not the answer to everything!

Not all Palestinian Arabs are Moslems. Some are Christian and members of those churches you saw. But they are all Arabs – part of the Arab nation as they themselves declare in the PLO Charter.

There are non- Arab Christians in the Holyland as well but they don’t qualify as Palestinians under the PLO Charter – nor do the Jews.

Israel is not “in a decision making position over the fate of the Palestinians” as you state.

Those Arabs living in Israel – are indeed all Israeli citizens subject to Israeli law.

55% of those Arabs living in the West Bank are under the complete administrative and security control of the Palestinian Authority. 41% are under the administrative control of the Palestinian Authority who rule their daily lives. Similarly all the Arabs living in Gaza are under the total administrative and security control of Hamas.

So if there is any pain in their daily lives then perhaps you should be asking the Palestinian authority to explain.

Maybe if you detail the pain you experienced – I can try and answer you.

Is it anything like the pain being suffered by their fellow Arabs in Syria or Libya at the moment? Have you voiced your concern at what is going on there?

What is my solution?

I believe the best that can be done is to go back as far as possible to restore the status quo that existed at 5 June 1967.

Jordan then occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Palestinian Arabs living there had opted to unify with Jordan in 1950 rather than press for their own independent state. They became Jordanian citizens and enjoyed that status until 1988.

The opportunity to create a Palestinian State for the first time in recorded history will not happen again more than 44 years after that opportunity was not taken between 1948-1967.

Too much water has flown under the bridge since then as 500000 Jews have gone to live in these areas after every Jew living there had been driven out in 1948.

18 years of trying to create a Palestinian State since 1993 has been an abject failure and there is no reason to believe it can ever happen.

Dividing sovereignty of the West Bank and east Jerusalem between Jordan and Israel by direct negotiations offers some hope of restoring that 1967 status quo as far as is now possible – albeit Jordan could have still had it all had it not entered the Six Day War against Israel’s warning to it to desist.

Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1994 – something unable to be achieved with the PLO, Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.

Redrawing the border between Jordan and Israel – two nations already at peace with each other- should be relatively easy to achieve.