Let’s make this easy: If you are among the sadly misguided who believe that Hamas’ sick death-cult ideology will somehow lead to a better future for Palestinians, you can stop reading.

However, if you think (as I do) that Palestinian society can nurture more individuals who change the world for the better — people such as 2025 Nobel Laureate Omar Yaghi, the Palestinian chemist whose work transformed clean-energy research, and many others — then read on.

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As a Jew, I’ve got some baggage regarding Germany. Yet I’ve visited numerous times and, despite its flaws, it is today unarguably a vibrantly democratic society.

This, of course, was not always the case.

At the end of World War II, Allied leaders understood that something fundamental had to change. Decades of Nazi influence and rul

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