To my Arab brothers: The War with Israel Is Over — and they won. Now let's finally move forward
With Israel entering its fourth week of an incursion into the same Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few months ago, a sense of reality among Arabs is spreading through commentary by Arab pundits, letters to the editor, and political talk shows on Arabic-language TV networks. The new views are stunning both in their maturity and in their realism. The best way I can think of to convey them is in the form of a letter to the Palestinian Arabs from their Arab friends:
Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:
The war with Israel is over.
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... The Syrians, my friends, will gladly fight down to the last Palestinian Arab.
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The war is over. Why not let a new future begin?