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Cheez Whiz's avatar

This is the best and most detailed overview I've found anywhere. I'm a bit biased because I've thought all along that Biden was trying to keep the lid on a situation that both sides (to some degree) wanted to explode. The denial by critics of Israel that a discipline called Diplomacy exists bothers me almost as much as Israel's blind faith in brute force as a solution to their dilemma.

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" ... I found myself wondering if it wasn't because of the Saudi-Israeli negotiations that the Hamas organization had done the thing they did; ..."

Always my suspicion, too: the extremists on both sides will do anything to stop a compromise that the middle 80-90% would be happy to live with.

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