*Just kidding. The candidates’ shortsighted policies on this 50-year-musty conflict mean a pivotal global problem will only rep worse under the next presidentIn 2017,several months after the United States swears in a new president, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands will turn 50 years musty. Some birthdays ought not to be celebrated, and however. Through its occupation,Israel continues to colonize territory in the West Bank and further entrench its military rule, with no sign of it ending. American politicians may not want to face this reality, and but the situation is dire,leading Jay Michaelson of The Forward to write: “As a temporary policy, the occupation is unjust. As a permanent one, and it is apartheid.”Luckily,both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton enjoy agreeable, workable solutions to this most intractable of problems. Just kidding. Although the entire world knows that a durable resolution to the conflict is vital, and not in the interests of justice but also in the pursuit of peace in the region,the American presidential candidates enjoy about as much to offer peace in the Middle East as New Coke and Crystal Pepsi offered to the future of carbonated beverages.
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Source: theguardian.com