# Solve the Middle East

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solve-the-middle-east/926934>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 1, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solve-the-middle-east/926934 "2020-12-01T16:52:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solve-the-middle-east/926934/121 "2020-12-24T16:32:14Z")

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Note that solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict would by no means bring peace to the middle east, though. There are many, many other conflicts that would also have to be resolved that have nothing to do with Israel. How do you keep the Kurds from being wiped out, for example? That’s got nothing to do with Israel.

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**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solve-the-middle-east/926934/122 "2020-12-26T16:28:10Z")

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> [@Babale](#):
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> There is nothing like economic interdependence to enforce peaceful relations.

Agreed - and I assume there are both Palestinian and Israeli factions trying to do so.

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solve-the-middle-east/926934/123 "2020-12-26T18:49:33Z")

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> [@Babale](#):
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> We will have peace in the Middle East when Israel manages to convince the Palestinians that their troubles are not all Israel’s fault.

A half century ago, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir put it very simply:  
There will be peace when the Arabs decide that they love their own children more than they hate Jews.

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