Point / Counterpoint: History didn't start with Netanyahu's government

Israelis and Palestinians will never agree on the history of the conflict (each have their own version), so there is no other way of resolving the conflict other than looking forward rather than backward.

By EDWIN BENNATAN
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History didn't start with Netanyahu's government Counterpoint to: The Two-State Solution Doesn't Solve Anything The heart of the [Israel-Palestinian conflict] is not necessarily how to define a state of Palestine. It is, as in a sense it always has been, how to define the state of Israel." Hussein Agha and Robert Malley The New York Times August 11, 2009 In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, history stops while the previous day's events are erased, and the day is then relived in a different way. I was reminded of this movie while reading the Hussein Agha and Robert Malley opinion piece in The New York Times. For them, it would appear, history stopped at the end of March and the events of previous Israeli governments were erased. History was then restarted in April with Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister. Read the rest of this blog
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