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technological regional power, maybe global power. we're economically thriving. art the arabs are making peace with us, even though we haven't moved on the palestinian issue. can't israel keep doing what it's doing? >> i think that's a very fragile facade, and i say that because, again, when we have wars, and we've seen -- there is a template there. i know what's going to happen over the three weeks and how the loss of life and tragedy on all sides. this last war, i thought, was different. since 1998, this is the first time i feel that a civil war happened in israel. when you look at the villages and the towns, arab-israelis and israelis got into conflict. i think that was a wake-up call for the people of israel and for the palestine. unless we move along and give hope to the palestinians, and one of the conversations we had was how do we invest in the lives of palestinians?