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Okay yala let's do this. God. 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.

Welcome to the second part of our two-parter about the four seemingly impossible

obstacles that confounded Israeli and Palestinian leaders alike.

If you haven't listened to the last episode, go back and listen.

Please, you'll need the context to understand this whole story.

Last week we talked about the first two issues, the first Jerusalem, which both Israelis and the

Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital. The second borders. Israelis and

Palestinians can't seem to agree on where a future Palestinian state should go.

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