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MOM: No, my friends are all very pro-Israel.
ME: But how many, really, think the idea of giving away land is not necessary for peace? How many are prepared to say that the “West Bank” should formally be part of Israel?
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MOM: eyes squinch again.
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I feel like this is a conversation I am going to keep having with my mother. It’s going to take a long time before what she’s hearing can really be absorbed into her bloodstream in a way that can begin to compete with the lifetime on life support from the New York Times and CNN and just about every other source of mainstream news.
I’ll keep at it.
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