I came to Israel as a fledgling ole hadash from the USA where I went to study, shortly after the Lebanon war in the 1980s. My naivety, ignorance, the influence of the society that I lived in, and the fact that I have a "leftist" and humanist inclinations, formulated my approach to the Israel-Arab conflict along the lines of "Israel has enough land, if we end the occupation and dısmantle settlements, give the Palestinians hope for a peaceful future, then there will be peace".