If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault They see but one thing we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that.
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