New music video visualizes peace in the Middle East - Taylor Swift included

(JTA) — After the hostages return to Israel, peace takes hold in the Middle East. Army recruitment offices are shuttered; Israelis shelve the second passports that let them live abroad; and trains run uninterrupted from Egypt to Syria. Soon, Israeli and Iranian judokas embrace, and Israel advances in the World Cup. Ultimately, Taylor Swift takes the stage in Tel Aviv.

The sequence of events exceeds even the wildest ambitions of most Israelis, who know from experience that peace, when it comes, is tenuous and often cold. But it’s all visualized in technicolor in a new music video by the Israeli...