Why doesn't anyone want to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - opinion

Why haven’t the two sides resolved the conflict? With people dying on both sides, you’d think there’d be an impetus to find a resolution as soon as possible.

THEN PRESIDENT Barack Obama, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA head Mahmoud Abbas arrive to make a statement at the White House on peace talks, in 2010. When mediators consistently encourage compromise to people unwilling to do so, they’re setting themselves up to fail, says the writer

THEN PRESIDENT Barack Obama, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA head Mahmoud Abbas arrive to make a statement at the White House on peace talks, in 2010. When mediators consistently encourage compromise to people unwilling to do so, they’re setting themselves up to fail, says the writer

(photo credit: REUTERS/JASON REED)

ByURI PILICHOWSKI

DECEMBER 25, 2022 02:28

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