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There Is No 'Israeli-Palestinian Conflict': To understand why, you have to zoom out.
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'If you see only an "Israeli-Palestinian" conflict, then nothing that Israelis do makes sense. (That's why Israel's enemies prefer this framing.) In this tightly cropped frame, Israelis are stronger, more prosperous and more numerous. Presented as a conflict is between two actors, but no peacemaker can bring the two sides together because there aren't just two sides. There are many, many sides.But because I'm zoomed out, I'm also seeing Hezbollah (not Palestinian), and the Russians and Iranians (not Palestinian), and the Islamic State-affiliated insurgents (not Palestinian) on our border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. I'm considering the disastrous result of the power vacuum in Syria, which is a 90-minute drive from the West Bank.' Read more of this genuine analysis...
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