(USA Today) Amy Friedkin - An American or international force sent to serve as either a buffer between the Israelis and Palestinians or to actually fight terrorist groups will not only fail, it will also cost American and other lives. The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is riddled with peacekeeping forces that either ran at the first sign of trouble, as in Sinai before the Six-Day War in 1967, or took heavy casualties before ceding ground to the terrorist groups themselves, as in Hizballah-controlled southern Lebanon.
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