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Kai Bird spent a big a part of his adolescence within the Middle East. After many a long time, the Pulitzer Prize winner and writer of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” anticipated that by now there could be a decision to the Israeli-Palestinian battle. Unfortunately, he was confirmed fallacious.
As a young expatriate American rising up within the Middle East, I witnessed all of the area’s horrible wars, the 1956 Suez conflict, the 1967 June conflict, the Jordanian civil conflict of 1970, the September 1970 hijackings, the October 1973 conflict. But I really thought that by the point I used to be in my 70s, effectively, certainly there could be peace. And certainly there could be a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum. I suppose I used to be mistaken.
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