Abbas

Israeli forces will increase anti-terror operations "without restrictions" in the wake of recent attacks against Israeli citizens, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon said Sunday. "Over the weekend and this morning there has been an increase in Palestinian terror against Israeli civilians," Sharon said before his weekly cabinet meeting. "Unfortunately despite the change in Palestinian leadership, we see that its leaders have not even begun to take any action against the terror. This situation cannot continue." CNN

It hasn't been 24 hours. I expected this. As I have repeated, Arafat didn't run the place. Abbas doesn't run the place. The armed guys walking through the streets, they run the place. I'm sick of reading about it. I hope on high that something good comes from all of this. All I know of now is death and oppression, both from both sides.

War
There are only so many ways to win a war.
1) Win the people (Public Relations) through words.

A) Convince the people they should not fight.

"The only way to win the game, is not to play." Learned by the computer in War Games. This is what diplomats are for. This is what happens every day behind the screens. This is the best and only way to avoid death, destruction and terrorism.
a) Diplomacy.
b) Communication.
c) Treaties/agreements.

2) Break the will of the people through actions.

A) Drive the people to be sick of fighting.

Think terrorism. Yes, you can win a war with terrorism. It is rather efficient. It actually limits the number of civilian and military casualties.

B) Destroy the reason people fight.

This does not work against religions, ideals, races, or  really any more. One cannot just go about destroying things these days. Because the U. S. is the only nation that has the ability to simply wipe out a country without resorting to nukes, every one hates us already.
a) Dismantle their nation with bombs/fighting/embargo.
b) Kill the charismatic leader/focal point.

C) Destroy the ability of the people to fight.

Think WWII. Repeat until one side gives out.
a) Bomb the factories to eliminate the ability to make anything.
c) Kill the armies on the battlefield and the factory workers..

D) Kill all the people (Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide).

You can't really do this. This is what the Nazis tried. Look what happened to them. They have a small political party in every free country that is treated like a small annoying, loud dog that used to bite, but doesn't have teeth anymore. It causes deep hatred for generations. Sometimes the revenge heaped upon revenge lasts thousands of years.

3) Threat.

This is not so much a way to win as a way to put off a war indefinitely. It is a great way to get the UN to give you favorable trade status. It is also a great way to hold off the U. S. for a long time. This does not work against terrorism, or diplomacy, though it affects diplomacy greatly.
A) Have nuclear weapons.
B) Say you have nukes.
C) Let people think you have nukes.

4) Gentrification.

Gentrification isn't really the right term. What I'm talking about is the modernization of a country through the sheer will of selling them products and services.
A) Deploy McDonald's and competitors. String phone lines and mobile phone towers all over the place. Bring plumbing, TV and internet to the masses.
B) For example, Iran. Iran has one of the most potent and limiting governments on the planet today. However, when you get people pulled to the side and find out what they want, they tell you "European cigarets" and "satellite TV".

C) China too, is embracing the "western" culture. China is about to become the largest economy in the world. This juggernaut of capitalism cannot call itself a Communist country for much longer. So, the U. S. has won the war with China by this gentrification method in the sense that they will crush us in the near future by taking all the jobs and making everything thus winning the war via the "destroy the ability of people to fight" method mentioned above. And without firing a shot. Not bad. There may be a new way to win a war. "Out bid your enemy on jobs, thus control their economic strings." China and India can write  the book on that one.