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WHITT

(2,868 posts)
2. The Big Mistake
Tue May 25, 2021, 02:17 PM
May 2021

occurred in 2000 at Camp David. President Clinton offered up to Israel, control of the Temple Mount, control of East Jerusalem (within the parameters of Jerusalem being an international city), and swapouts in the West Bank. Arafat agreed. PM Barack made a cowardly and fateful rejection.

They thought they could just 'contain' the Palestinian 'problem', but two decades later, more than 20% of the population is now Arab, and GEE, they identify with the Palestinians, along with most of the rest of the non-fascist planet, including a rising number of younger generations of Americans.

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