Is there a way out of the Israeli-Palestinian trap?
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But is that gap any wider than that between French Protestants and Catholics at the time of the religious wars? Or, more recently, that between France and Germany during WW II? Or, still more recently, that between America and Vietnam?
Gaps can be closed; all it requires is a bit of common sense. The French decided that, after all, on Sundays they preferred restaurants to churches. Europeans united under a EU banner. Americans an Vietnamese discovered they had a common enemy - China.
So why not in the Middle East? To survive as a nation, Israel needs more friends in the region, not foes. And ordinary Palestinians? Would they not be better off without Hamas, which has used them as a human shield?