Chuck Freilich

If a two-state solution remains imperative, the most that can realistically be aspired to for the foreseeable future, and possibly beyond, is probably just civil separation.

Had a Palestinian state been established some two decades ago, as Israel proposed, the settlements and “occupation” issues would have become moot long ago. 

There is a price to be paid for Hamas's orgy of slaughter, mutilation, and killing of pregnant women, rape, burning families alive, devastating entire communities.

The Saudi-Israel track has the potential for far-reaching regional change. In reality, it is a multilateral package that would impose major demands on all sides but also provide major benefits.

Over the decades as Israel’s international standing waned, military force came to occupy an outsized portion of its national security strategy. 

Israel is convulsed by self-inflicted divisions that are wracking its society and economy, undermining its democracy and threatening its national security.

Israel will become a kleptocracy, in which the never-ending array of public figures convicted, or under investigation, for corruption and malfeasance, become the norm.

Israel never promised the Diaspora a Jewish Disneyland, or a rose garden, and the level of knowledge most American Jews have of Israel’s complex society and security is embarrassingly superficial.

Through a simple process of elimination, it is clear that a restoration of the nuclear deal is the best of the bad options for both the US and Israel.

It is to be hoped that Netanyahu is too smart and politically adroit to accede to the more extreme versions of annexation espoused by his coalition partners.