(New Ledger) Benjamin Kerstein - In the end, Obama will likely have to face the fact (or suffer the consequences of refusing to face it) that the Israeli-Arab conflict is impervious to Israeli concessions. The Israeli-Arab conflict was begun by the Arabs, and it can only be ended by the Arabs. It was a war of choice, unnecessary and unfortunate; and the Arabs, should they wish, can choose to end it. This would not be easy, given how the conflict has become culturally ingrained throughout the Arab world, and how any number of deranged and at times psychotic myths about the evils of Israel and the Jews have become normalized.
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