Wow, what a cop out. Why should I infer when you can just state it? That way there is no doubt about it.
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I had lunch with one of my oldest friends (met in the late 1970s, so we're both in our 60s) last week. He's Jewish and considered going aliyah a few years ago. A few things came out of this:
He's surprised at the more supportive attitude of younger people toward Palestine,
He ran through the history of the region from the mid to late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, the Zionist movement, the independent state, the 6 day and Yom Kippur wars to the present situation,
He said that Jews have always lived in, and owned land in, the region and the major cause of friction is the refusal of certain groups to recognize the state of Israel,
He's basically of the mind that the hostages are going to die. And that for Israel this is a war of survival. He's more concerned about Hezbollah than anything from Gaza. The thinks Biden is going to try to force Israel into compromises that won't last and will erode their security.