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We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors

without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel and elsewhere.

Say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel or the Jewish people.

I think they're home.

You know when you're arguing with someone going in endless circles around the same topic?

And then finally, after an hour of frustration and annoyance, you both decide you're arguing over nothing, and someone shuts it down with

ugh, that's just semantics.

Like for a totally theoretical example, when my friends and I argue about whether LeBron

James or Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.

Yeah, we know how to have fun.

My friend Jared is like LeBron is the goat.

Look at his all-around game, his longevity, and how he carry different teams to the finals.

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