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I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jackpot, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity

to the world we live in right now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Magna.

So we did take a hiatus last week, which means we are now officially at episode 89, your headline.

The two-state mirage.

Ah, okay, so you can, you must be talking about the Middle East and Israel and the Palestinians.

Tell us more.

Well, Mirage, because I'm thinking in particular of something that Barry Lopez writes in his classic book, Arctic Dreams.

He talks about something called the Fata Morgana,

which is a mirage where distant land formations are somehow seen as castles in the air.

Well, the two-state solution has been that kind of mirage in the Middle East. It's been a kind of

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