"It's in all the lesson books and in the words handed down by elders everywhere. The solution to the Middle East is so simple that only talking heads and heads of state can muck it up. It goes like this:
Follow the rules.
That's it.
When the world's Middle East mediators -- the United States, the European Union, Russia, the U.N. -- meet this week in Moscow to discuss (yet again) the best laid plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace, they would do well to narrow their discussion to the common lessons they learned as children.These have been written, simplified and codified by time, convention and various legal bodies. Not only international law and the United Nations, the revered rules and robes of humanity, e.g., the Torah, the Koran, the Christian Bible; Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Rabbi Hillel and the rabbi formerly known as Jesus of Nazareth. History's wisest leaders agreed on these basics: No murdering, lying, robbing, cheating, stealing.
The Huffington Post
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A very excellent piece.
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