Jonathan, I read the Malley/Agha op-ed in the New York Times a little more positively than you did. As I see it, the piece is something of a watershed: two leading peace processors are joining us killjoy Zionists and admitting the basic truth that the Israeli-Arab conflict isn’t about settlements or 1967—it’s about 1948 itself, about the existence of the Jewish state being unacceptably shameful to most Arabs.
Haven’t we always demanded that our ideological adversaries acknowledge this basic point? It seems to me that two of their leaders now have.
