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at the moment i'm not so sure what direction this will take over the longer run, mostly because it's pretty clear that netanyahu is a problem.
but the administration has argued that there has to be a change in us policy toward israel from the outset. my vague sense is that biden is to the right of hillary clinton on this.
it seems to me that the settlements are a fundamental issue, a fundamental problem. they are **the** central obstacle to a two-state arrangement; they are the cause of the more brutal aspects of the occupation; they are the trigger for violence both independently (that is on their own) and in response. the settlers are also a considerable force on the israeli right and ultra-right. and the demolition of existing settlements---which personally i think necessary and justifiable---will self-evidently not be simple thing.
curiously, the model for alot of this seems to be the occupation of native american land.
in principle, i see the settlements as the central problem.
in reality, i think the settlements are the central problem but it's obviously not going to be easy to do anything about them.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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