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Fields of Heaven: A Joint Israeli-Palestinian Farm May Take Root in West Bank

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"For the last year or so, I've been spending time with unlikely friends: a loose group of West Bank Palestinians and Jewish settlers, most of them neighbors, living within a few miles of each other. The mainstreams of these two populations seem like they are in almost constant conflict -- last week, settlers are suspected of throwing into a Palestinian taxi a fire bomb that wounded six people, including two children. Meanwhile, members of this small group of friends have met, responding to such acts of violence, and also planning longer term projects."

This is a great story! It reminded me of an article I wrote for OEN a couple of years back. I've long believed that the 2-State solution is a geopolitical impossibility and that these two peoples must learn to live in one land.
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