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Okay, yala, Let's do this. We the people of Israel are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel elsewhere

say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs in Israel or the Turkish people.

I think they're on. I'm a pretty.

I think they're home.

I'm a pretty positive person most of the time.

I think.

I believe in trying to look at the bright side. I think in silver linings and

glasses half full. I think this way of living isn't forced. It's entirely

sincere. It's an effort I try to make every single day.

But that doesn't mean I'm not, sometimes, a spectacularly petty person. I have a long list of semi-irrational pet peeves. Pizza crusts with a flimsy undercarriage, the word yummy, I just don't like it, don't ask, not my thing. When people take out the trash, but don't put a new bag in, come on. And what's baristas call out, ice brown sugar oat milk, shaking espresso for Nome.

I mean, okay, Nome isn't as bad as my producer, Rifke getting called Rafiqi,

and I guess it's not as bad as whatever hate crimes get committed on a daily basis against

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