Interactive essays - Conflict in the Middle East

BBC News Online has invited a Palestinian and an Israeli to give their opinion on why the world must now turn its attention back to the Middle East. Watch and read the experts' views, then have your say.

Ghada Karmi: An orgy of killing is being ignored Dr Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian writer who has lived in London since she was eight. She urges Tony Blair and George Bush to focus their attention on the real breeding ground of terrorism in the Middle East - the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yossi Mekelberg: Now is the time for compromise Yossi Mekelberg was born in Israel and now lives and teaches in Britain. He traces the derailment of the last hope for the Middle East - the Oslo peace agreement - and asks what can be done to keep the current "roadmap for peace" on course.