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To WIN a Palestinian State, Palestinians Must Forego the 2 State Solution, and Seek Israeli Citizenship

This Blogger just finished listening to Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech about the imbroglio in the Middle East, specifically between Israel and Palestine.  The speech started off as the best, most passionate speech John Kerry has ever given, and,then in typical Kerry fashion, deteriorated into mediocre tedium. As the speech never ended, this Blogger thought about the last Israeli lion, Shimon Peres, who died in this year 2016, at the age of 93. It is one of the great sins of 20 th Century History that an Israeli/Palestinian accord could not be forged when other great Israeli lions were alive: Moshe Dayan, David  Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, and Abba Eban. Alas, the great Arab lion of that age was Gamal Abdel Nasser; who was delusional. He threatened Israel with annihilation; then,rather than plan for an armed Israeli reaction to his threats, a preemptive strike, he spent hours discussing the future of Jews in a post Israeli, Palestinian state. With lions like D...