(New York Times) James Bennet - There is tremendous change taking place right now. There's a real ideological transformation underway within the Israeli right -- an effort to shelve the dream of a greater Israel. The Israelis are taking the initiative now, they're trying to change the rules of the game in order to manage the conflict, if not end it. The Palestinians have made no national decisions, and the very mechanism for making them is in ruins. In the West Bank and Gaza, a contest is underway between warlords and democrats, between Islamists and secular leaders, between those who would destroy Israel and those who would live beside it.
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