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Team Biden Can Help Mideast Peace

A compelling vision might move Israelis and Palestinians to try a new approach.

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Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Palestinians rush toward a column of smoke after an Israeli strike in Gaza City on August 3, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinians rush toward a column of smoke after an Israeli strike in Gaza City on August 3, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro could lose a potential vice-presidential nomination over an op-ed he wrote as a 20-year-old college student. Palestinians, he wrote in 1993, “are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”

Mr. Shapiro’s more moderate critics blame Israeli intransigence rather than Palestinian truculence for the continuing conflict. Israelis, they say, are focused on expanding settlements in the West Bank rather than giving the Palestinians a chance to build their own state. The governor’s most vociferous critics simply want to kill Jews.

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