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Israel never wanted peace? Here's the actual truth.

JL;DR SUMMARY Avi Mayer recounts his experience speaking at the Oxford Union Society where the debated proposition was that "Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish TraditionEhud BarakZionismPalestinePeaceNegotiationsLegitimacyOxford UnionTerritorial Concessions

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"The first word I learned on my first day of primary school in Jerusalem was shalom (peace) an experience shared by all Israelis, including those in this room, on both sides of this debate."
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
"Recently, I stood in the Oxford Union Society and delivered the closing argument in a fiery debate about Israel."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"I remember watching, wide-eyed, as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, certain that a new era of peace was upon us."

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