Krauthammer
Almost comic, reading someone so clear-eyed and frank about the situation on the ground.
Peace awaits three things.
Eventual Palestinian acceptance of a Jewish state.
A Palestinian leader willing to sign a deal based on that premise.
A modicum of regional stability that allows Israel to risk the potentially fatal withdrawals such a deal would entail.
This part, however, is insincere or a mere act of faith against the evidence of more than a half century of experience.
I believe such a day will come.
But this again is right.
But there is zero chance it comes now or even soon.
That’s essentially what Netanyahu said in explaining — and softening — on Thursday his no-Palestinian-state statement.
Thereafter, the only place he goes wrong is where he supports the US continuing to play Israel's bodyguard, no matter the price.
On the other hand, he writes skeptically of the US and UN security guarantees that are supposed to provide Israel sufficient confidence to move ahead with the two-state solution.
And he is right to do so, and to compare such guarantees with American and NATO guarantees for the Ukraine.
He sees the guarantors are very, very unlikely to risk much to fulfill their promises.
What he does not concede is that those promises were rash and foolish, as would be any formal US guarantees for Israel.
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