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I think you are correct about Natanyahu. He is very smart and he is also a very experienced politician - internally and externally.
I think that your points about the article are valid as well. I knew that posting a Caroline Glick article would raise questions about its content but we seem to both agree that it fits with what we were discussing.
I think that you also have a point about the prospects for peace, however, I want to make two comments:
1) One may be surprised with what someone does when they are in power vs. what they said when they were trying to get into power or when they were part of the opposition. We see this all the time all over the world in democracies. I feel that mainstream politicians are like this (whether this is right or wrong). They feel the pressures from all areas; the public, foreign governments, lobbyists, and their own desire to be in power. They compromise - maybe not alot but they compromise everyday. It is the politicians and governments on the far left or far right (who may come to power through revolution or coup) that ignore these pressures and don't compromise at all.
2) I think that you are most likely right with regards to our current idea of what peace is and what it should be. I don't have the answers but I do believe that we have been trying to get to a specific idea of "peace" in a specific manner for a long time. I think that we are ripe for a new way of doing things. Am I saying that Natanyahu has this new way? No. What I am saying is not to discount anything from the get-go. In our current reality it is very hard for us to think that there are any possibilities for change becuase we are often stuck in a certain way of thinking. Maybe we need to think of things in a whole new way. I am not saying that Natanyahu can do that. I am saying that we should try and do that.
The successful inventor is very rare. I think this is beacuse so many of us our stuck in our reality and the successful inventor is abel to get outside of it seeing the real problem or seeing the problem differently than any of us see it. He is therfore able to come up with a solution that nobody has even had the smallest thought about before.
This is what is needed here.
That is my opinion anyway.
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