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– Richard Forer is the author of ‘Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine’, and ‘Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion: A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict.’ He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.