I had a dream I brokered a long term sustainable peace agreement between Israel and Palestinians
Today I celebrated an early Yom Ha’atzmaut - Israeli Independence Day. Before I went to sleep last night, I saw the a reel by Bill Clinton talking about the most generous offer Israel has ever made - an offer that Yasser Arafat rejected without even a counter offer.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDPVEHPR46C/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
After that I saw a reel where a worker for UNRWA - the UN body whose sole job was supposed to be the resettling of Palestinian refugees, explained how she has seen UNRWA turn Palestinian children into child soldiers for terrorist organizations like Hamas.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXEwvB0DaUN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I went to sleep thinking about what a tragedy it is that the world uses Palestinian children as a weapon against Israel at the expense of their own best interests for a war they will never win. I thought how the people of Israel would love nothing more than to finally experience peace that most of us in the western world take for granted.
When I went to sleep, I had a dream that I was able to bring world leaders together and explain just how toxic UNRWA and Hamas are, and that we were able to disband them and prevent any further generations of Palestinian children from being indoctrinated with hate against the Jewish people. In the dream, the Palestinian people had a wise, strong and selfless ruler who chose peace and established a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with a capital in East Jerusalem over a forever war where everyone loses, and no one wins understanding that he himself would become a likely target for assassination - something Yasser Arafat was never willing to do. In my dream the Israeli government was willing to make the type of offer Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak would have made.
I had a dream that I was so convincing that even the skeptics on both sides - who were open minded in a way they had never been before in the wake of October 7th and the War with Gaza that followed - were willing to give up more than they wanted in the deal to finally make peace a reality in the context of a 2 state solution. Because the reality is neither Jews nor Palestinian has any place else to go, and neither of us would be willing to go anywhere else even if they could. We mine as well live our lives in peace, nothing else makes sense. There is no other long term solution to this conflict - why can’t today be the day that both sides take a definitive step towards peace by removing the impediments that have kept us trapped in war?