All my life, the Middle East has been synonymous with the war between Israelis and Arabs. This tiny area is a festering wound that has poisoned the entire world, with a now permanent world-wide threat of terrorism that finds its roots in this senseless dispute over a strip of land.
There's no unmaking Israel. Whether Jews had a right to be given a country or not, now it's there, and all its residents have a right to live like anyone else who finds themselves in this world through the accident of birth. It's not their fault that they were born and raised in Israel.
So do Palestinians have a right to live in dignity. So why don't both sides just let each other get on with their lives, and stop boring all the rest of us silly.
Here's my cliche for the outgoing year of good riddance, which they should write down in bold Hebrew and Arabic lettering on their respective flags: "Live and let live". Amen.
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