Despite a difference in political positions and cultural dissimilarities, it turns out that the common religious denominator has the strength to create a different language. Contrary to what some Israelis think, the Palestinians are also sick and tired of things. They also want their children to come home safely. They also want to live.
The tendency to see the half-empty glass sometimes makes us forget the other half, the full one. In the past three decades, ever since the messages sent by Anwar Sadat at the beginning of the 1970s and his historic visit to Jerusalem, there has been a slow but steady and constant process among the 22 Arab countries of coming to terms with, and reconciling to the idea of, the existence of the state of Israel.
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