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| …What caught my eye was Bibi’s expressed hope for ending the conflict with the Palestinians, because if he believes that, we are in serious trouble. Surely, given his father’s teaching, which was that there is no end to the conflict, only eternal self-defense, he does not really believe that Israel can hand over enough land for a truly independent Palestinian state which will placate these people. It is their nature always to demand from us what we cannot give. The carrot they dangle before us always demands that we humiliate ourselves more than we have in the past – like today’s decision, which can be interpreted as the end of the line for Bibi’s kind of secular right-wing Zionism… | |||