(Newsday) James Klurfeld - There is ample reason to be skeptical of the view that a Palestinian-Israeli agreement is key to peace in that entire region. The reality is that the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has often been used as a scapegoat by Arab leaders to divert attention from their own internal problems or to camouflage the deeply felt disputes between Muslim nations. The hatred between Sunni and Shia Muslims has nothing to do with the Israeli-Arab dispute. There is a mountain of evidence that Arab leaders have exacerbated the Palestinian situation because it was a way to divert attention from their dismal failure to build modern, democratic, prosperous states.
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