I've been asked what could be an immediate and effective foreign policy act that incoming President Trump could take to promote peace. My answer was that he needs to give the eight decades too late "You Lost" speech. Here is my proposal: "Dear Palestinians: The current war and destruction in Gaza are the direct consequences of your repeated choice, for over a century, to prioritize destroying what the Jews have built over building for yourselves. Again and again that terrible choice has led you to ruin, and again and again, misguided (at best) western and international powers have led you to believe that you did not lose the war against Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land, but that your victory was merely delayed. This has only ever brought about more war and suffering. If we are to chart a different future of peace and prosperity, you must come to terms with the fact that given that your goal in the past century was to initially prevent and then undo the existence of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the Jewish history homeland, you lost. Israel, as the sovereign state of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland, is here to stay. You can live next to it, but not instead of it. Peace and prosperity depend on you finally coming to terms with your devastating loss, recognizing how terrible your ideology has been, and that in living in the West Bank and Gaza you are not multiple generation refugees and you possess no such thing as a “right of return” into the sovereign state of Israel. You need to finally, eight decades too late, accept and even embrace this. From that, and only from that, a better future for all can be built."
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