They cannot be wished away. Yet in pursuit of a legacy for himself, Bill Clinton rushed both the Israelis and the Palestinians to the peace table. He pressured Israel to offer land without military safeguards. That encouraged Palestinian anger that has left the region closer to full-scale war than at any time in the past two decades. Which puts me in mind of another of my long-held beliefs.
Playboys make incompetent diplomats.
The playboy's customary conquests are too easy. Conquests over the adamantine realities of history are more difficult. Israel has no alternative to remaining powerful and resolute, as I noted years ago.