Last week, the peace negotiations, convening in Egypt and Jerusalem, gingerly maneuvered past the settlement-freeze question, Israeli arrests of Palestinians, and Gaza-launched rockets. The talks kept going. This week at the United Nations, President Obama himself steps into the diplomatic danger zone with President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet a geography touching two hemispheres is itself an indicator that the actual boundaries of the Israeli-Palestinian battleground extend far beyond the local dispute. Indeed, there are unaddressed global — and even cosmic — dimensions to the Arab-Jewish war, dimensions that are both poorly understood and rarely discussed.
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