There has long been a conventional wisdom in some foreign policy circles that runs like this: solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and you will harmonise the Middle East, crush the recruitment strategy of jihadists and keep the misery of the modern Arab world far from our screens and our shores.
Jordan’s King Abdullah said as much at a press conference at the White House in April: ‘The Israeli-Palestinian conflict … is essentially the core conflict in our region’.
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