You said that ("The year that shattered the Middle East"):
"American support and Israeli restraint will also be crucial in tackling Israel’s other big security problem: the Palestinians"
Why are Palestinians the problems for Israel? They only
live/survive in the occupied land of Palestine from 1967 under the
military oppression, but the real and hard security problem for Israel
are the more than 500.000 of settlers there (not to mention East Jerusalem). There
is, as you said, a continuous and "eternal occupation" that prevents peace.