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The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find a leader of the PLO or an equivalent movement to represent Palestine during and after the Cold War who is competent in either the military or the political senses, preferably both. This man has to rise by skill in things other than killing his rivals off. What would the impact of such a man be on the whole Israel-Palestine issue, and how might such a thing impact the relations of Israel and the PLO in this kind of scenario? What would the neighboring Arab states make of this? Personally I think that a politically competent PLO leader would be preferable, as he'd be able to undermine Israel's greatest strength, namely its military juggernaut nature relative to its Arab state neighbors, and to forestall the Arab states' inevitable distrust of an independent Palestine in their own right, by appealing to political factors. And it would also be enough of a challenge to forge a unified Palestinian organization in its own right that asking for this *and* a militarily brilliant figure seems to verge outside probable realism factors. However I do not think that such a man would end the existence of an Israeli state or anything near it, due to the aforementioned military juggernaut factor.
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