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Let’s be clear. Nothing will get better with the Israelis and the Palestinians until we surrender the idea that the solution is for one side or the other to be on its knees or terminated.

The people who live in that part of the world have to give up that idea.

In this part of the world, politicians, columnists, lobbyists, pundits and others also have to give up poisonous thought.

Otherwise we all have at least another century of cycles of violence and revenge to look forward to.