(National Interest) Leon Hadar - Another war between Israelis and Palestinians has helped stir new discussion about reviving the "peace process." Perhaps the time has come to cease peace processing and fantasizing. Instead, we need to lower our expectations. Israelis have yet to recover from the horrors of Oct. 7 and the massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis. Moreover, the Arabs are watching the destruction in Gaza and the death of thousands of Palestinians. The bottom line is that Israelis and Palestinians aren't ready for a great reconciliation between their two peoples. The writer is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia.
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