I have been following the Palestinian-Israeli relationship essentially all of my life, at various times, a private person, a journalist, a government official, and a futurist. Over that time it has become a ghastly kabuki, played again and again – a cultural meatgrinder. A possibly offensive image, which I use deliberately. I won’t go over the details; we all know the chorus. Watching what is going on now I just wish reality could be edited. All of this death, and injury goes nowhere. So how can this murderous ritual be ended? Can we finally agree that it will not be by any of the strategies tried over the last half century? That said let me state my goal: a functioning prosperous Palestinian state, in alliance with a prosperous Israel. When I think about this, it seems to me the power lies with the Palestinians. If I were a Palestinian leader, particularly if I had any secret aspirations to become my people’s historical person, this is the strategy I would pursue: I would very publicly announce that the Palestinians would disarm if an international observer corps was created to oversee this, and […]