Yes, that was his example of why he believed that. I'm historically that would be expected.

I mean as an American I was unaware of the nuance. Like how they won't stamp your passport.

Why? Because when we went to Jordan the border crossing agents "won't accept a defaced passport with a stamp from a made-up control like Israel."

Literally what they told us at the border. My wife and I love getting stamps in our passports and they refused.

I just went to Israel a few months ago. I sat down with a lieutenant colonel from the army (retired and now a tour guide) and asked him open ended questions about the situation without responding (just a lot of 'oh wow, our news doesn't say that' and the like).

He said a bunch of interesting things all related to wanting peace, but the two that stuck the most to me were:

1. the Palestinians come to the table with demands that will never be met, like asking every single Jew in Jerusalem to leave their homes. Some have been there for so long now that they would never leave their homes.

2. whoever actually is able to make a deal with the Palestinians will likely be assassinated or have a number of attempts on their life. So it will only happen if Israel has a very strong leader in place to make those tough decisions.

To add on to what u/latexi95 said, the work units you get are hours of processing and you are usually given around 4-7 days to complete it. Once completed and on wifi, your PC will send the completed units back to the project automatically.

Astroids@home was something I used to crunch on my old android phone in 2015 or so, that hopefully can give you an idea of how simple the work units can be.

BOINC is actually pretty smart, and it will check your hardware before it sends anything, so if there are GPU focused work units vs CPU focused one it will check before they are sent.

Asteroids@home is like SETI but for mapping the entire asteroid belt and known bodies.

You can use BOINC to dedicate processing power to it on your laptops or phones if you wanted to.