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I have thought about writing this post , got half way through it, then deleted it, only to start again.
Both sides in the Israeli-Arab dispute have their own narratives and minds much greater and more informed then mine have made compelling cases for both sides. A person would be disingenuous to completely accept the Arab or Israeli narrative of how Israel came to be in 1948. "Bastardized" versions of the Arab narrative have the Jews dropping into the land now called Israel some time around 1948 without a hint of historical attachment to the land and "bastardized" versions of the Israeli narrative have a uninterrupted Jewish presence,albeit one that increased and decreased over time , in that land for 3,700 years that was ratified in 1948 by declaring Israel a state. Like in a court case, there's "he said", "she said" and the "truth" and the truth is usually a combination of both sides.
With both sides nursing ancient grievances and having wildly different reasons for how the problem came to be can they ever reach a resolution. I doubt it.
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