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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has raged for generations, and all previous attempts at resolution have failed.
In fact, not only have these efforts failed, but the situation on the ground has steadily deteriorated since the less hopeless days of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands on the White House lawn.
