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Live Blog Update| Israeli Elections
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Bibi or Buji?

Whether Bibi or Buji is elected, MEE Editor-in-Chief David Hearst argues that for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, there is no difference:

"As this conflict goes approaches its eighth decade, it becomes less about maps, borders or the label given to a solution - one state, two state or no state. The essential precursor to any solution - a will to recognise the equal rights of non-Jews to land, water, ports, airspace, oil and gas, fish, in any of the five states that Israel controls - is absent. Whether that refusal is best represented by a Bibi who says no concessions or a Buji whose idea of an ideal world is that Israel keeps all of the land it has occupied, I leave that for others to judge."

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