Uh, terrorists caused settlements? No. The fact was that after committing acts of genocide against Palestinians in Lebanon that were considered by the Israeli defense establishment to be beyond the pale, Ariel Sharon had his military positions stripped of him. So he became Housing Commissioner, and used bulldozers instead of tanks - and got away with it, because he put up settlements right atop the bulldozed Palestinian homes.

The obstacle to peace has been, and always will be, Ariel Sharon and anybody stupid enough to think this war criminal was "a man of peace" at any point in his miserable life.