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Dreams From My President

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If you look at the lower right-hand corner of this month’s cover, you will see a grouping of two articles by two of Israel’s most formidable intellects under the common heading: “No More Peace Plans!” Indeed, what Hillel Halkin and Caroline B. Glick do in their respective articles is attempt to lay out new paths for Israeli-Palestinian co-existence that would avoid the pitfalls of the grand-design “peace process” fantasies that have consumed the world for the past four decades.

Those fantasies of conciliation began with the 1969 Rogers Plan, an ineffectual framework appropriately named for Richard Nixon’s ineffectual first secretary of state, and moved forward through many others—the Allon plan, the Shultz plan, the Madrid process, the Oslo accords, the Wye discussion points, the Camp David proposal, the Taba extension, the Quartet’s Road Map, and probably a dozen I’ve forgotten.



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