America has to use its considerable leverage to get the Israeli government to do something to show Palestinians that it has — that there is a way for… - Peter Beinart

I wrote this book because of my grandmother, who made me a Zionist. And because of Khaled Jaber, who could have been my son.

The shift from Jewish powerlessness to Jewish power has been so profound, and in historical terms so rapid, that it has outpaced the way many Jews think about themselves. One hundred years ago, Jews in Palestine lived at the mercy of their Ottoman overlords; Jews in Europe endured crushing, often state-sponsored, anti-Semitism; Jews in the Muslim world were frequently consigned to second-class status; and Jews in the United States lived at the margins of American life. Even fifty years ago, none of Israel's Arab neighbors recognized its right to exist, and some of those neighbors seemed to enjoy military parity with, if not superiority over, the Jewish state. Most of the Jews still in Europe lived under a tyrannical, anti-Semitic Soviet regime, and even in the United States, some Ivy League universities still limited the number of Jewish students who could attend. Today, we inhabit a different world.

you can’t defeat an insurgency unless you address the core political grievances. This is the fundamental flaw behind Israel’s strategy.