Israel's Foreign Minister and oracle of peace Tzipi Livni was clearly caught off guard by the new Palestinian demand for an army for the "new" Palestinian State.

Livni publicly declared that all past agreements stipulated that a future Palestinian State would be demilitarized. A senior Palestinian participant in the talks said, "At the meeting in question we raised the demand for a regular army, meant to defend the independent state."

This latest, Palestinian demand brings to mind the philosopher George Santanyana's observation that people who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it. In the lead up to World War II, the British kept trying to satisfy Hitler's demands, and the more they gave the more Hitler asked from them. 

Israel better wake to the fact that every time they try to curry favor by capitulating to the demands of their enemies they will find their adversaries making more and more demands. It is a cycle that will never end.