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Israel's Predicament
(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - Israel is surrounded on nearly all sides by enemies who are aggressively committed to its destruction. Only Israel is on perpetual trial. Only Israel is routinely held to moral account for the terrorist outrages committed against it. Only the Jews, as Eric Hoffer put it in 1968, are expected to be "the only real Christians in the world." Will it some day dawn on Israel's so-called friends that 18 years of abortive efforts to come to terms with the Palestinians has soured Israelis on the idea of a Palestinian state? Or that a professed commitment to Israeli democracy means some regard to the conclusions Israelis have drawn about the prospects of peace by way of their electoral choices?