But, that's the thing. The elites are the ones who determine when and where to wage war. They believe that they're the only ones who matter.
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Elites, always and everywhere, are self-serving backstabbing parasites. If an alternative policy has a hope of working, an elite faction can be tempted to try it.
Israel and Palestine would have a very different dynamic if (terrorist, supremacist - but moderate) Yitzhak Rabin had not been assassinated by a member of a political movement the young Netanyahu was frequently photographed with.
