I travelled the Middle East in the early 1990s. At that time I did a good deal of research and reading on the situation.

My analysis?

There will be no peace in the Middle East in my lifetime. The best we can hope for is to keep things at a low simmer rather than boiling over.

Not that it would ultimately solve much, but I’d love to see as many Israelis as would choose to depart decamp for another part of the world. Northern Canada, perhaps. Or another little-populated part of the world. I feel certain they would work miracles wherever they landed.