Dr. Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of Palestine, a role that’s easier to think of as the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, shouldn’t have any trouble getting straight to the point. Having spent much of his youth in Ohio and racking up degrees from Youngstown State University , the University of Akron, as well as serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida in 2002, the man seems tailor-made for diplomacy. But when pressed on the one question everyone’s asking, his answer was about as clear as mud.

The question posed to him by the BBC was simple enough:

“The Israeli prime minister has said Israeli troops will stay in Gaza until Hamas disarms. Do you see that happening?”Sugg

It’s a direct question, one that goes to the heart o

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