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Month: June 2025

  • A Completely Different Approach to the Future of Palestinian-Israeli States, Security, and Permanent Peace

     
    The only way to envision the future is to draw from historical precedents that have actually worked, even in the face of the most outrageous acts of violence and the most bitter distrust. There is a way, and that is to look to history and build the future not as a carbon copy but inspired by possibility and possible futures. 
    The end of centuries of conflict between France and Germany, culminating in a stable and lasting peace after World War II, represents one of the most remarkable cases of reconciliation in modern history. This transformation was not accidental but the result of deliberate choices in economics, politics, education, and symbolic diplomacy that gradually reshaped national interests and collective memory. One of the most foundational steps was the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951, designed by Jean Monnet and supported by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman.
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