I have kids and my kids are the single most important thing in this world.

Apologies to all other humans alive. My kids matter more than all of you put together.

And so I would like a future in which my kids don't have to fight the Palestinians, don't have to face terrorism,

don't have to go into Palestinian cities and military operations when they're 18 years old.

That's a world I would like. So I would like peace and separation between two peoples that have a healthy relationship with each other.

The question isn't, do Palestinians deserve self-determination?

For the purpose of our conversation and because I happen to personally deeply believe it, let's just

say yes.

The question is how do we create a state that changes something on the ground, that changes the

reality, not just the formalities.

Let me cut to the chase. It's about the narrative. It's about the story.

As long as the Palestinians are told about us, their story of us, not their story of their history,

but their story of me is that I am something that can be destroyed and that must be destroyed

and that there is no dignity and there is no honor and there is no redemption until I'm destroyed.

Until that story ends, nothing moves. It is 11.5.

11.50.

It is 11.50 p.m. on Sunday, February 4th, here in Tel Aviv where I arrived today. It is

Sunday February 4th at 450 p.m. in New York City.

With all the recent talk about the possible establishment of a Palestinian state or recognition

of Palestinian state, I've been reflecting on one of my visits to Israel over the years in which

I stood in a small area on the western edge of the West Bank that overlooks what is

called the Hadera- Gadera rectangle. Now why are we talking about a

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