IN STEREO

Already you've been seeing some of what's going on. I call them the 'symptoms' of the problem, right? So I want to cover a little bit about the history of the problem, less on the symptoms, and then what's the diagnosis and what's the therapy and what's the prognosis. That's how we do it in medicine, that's how I taught my medical students – that's it's important to make the right diagnosis, offer the right therapy and not focus too much on every single symptom. OK, if you think of it this way: first, who is the patient in this case? A country called Palestine. Now, what's the next question a doctor asks? It's: has this patient had any problems before this current one? In actuality, Palestine is one of the most peaceful countries on Earth. I don't exaggerate this. What was the conflict before this here? You'd have to go back to the Crusaders to find one, and that's 1190 AD.

So what happened between 1190 AD and the late 19th century, for 800 years? Nothing. You could hear a pin drop. Quiet: no problems, no conflicts. We've been a peaceful society. So it's not a congenital problem, OK? And it's not a chronic illness that we have. We have an episode that started, and we need to understand it and we need to deal with it. What is this episode? It's very simple. The problem faced by European Jewish was that [this] country was not ‘a land without a people for a people without a land’. There were people here. When [Zionist, Theodor] Herzl sent two rabbis to Palestine in 1897 to look it over, they found that 97% of the population here was not Jewish – only 3% was Jewish. They sent a telegram back to him in Vienna. The telegram simply said: “The bride is beautiful, but she's married to another man.” – Mazin