The following article was published today in the Washington Jewish
Week.
In part, I was trying to find a way to express my outrage at Elliott Abrams'
matter-of-fact comments (in his recent Weekly Standard article and in his interview with the Jerusalem
Post) that throughout his term in Bush's White House, holding the Israel-Palestine portfolio
and entrusted by President Bush with implementing the two-state "Bush vision," he never believed that it was
either viable or desirable. He was the point-man but he never believed in his mission and admittedly was a
naysayer, an obstructionist. It takes a lot of chutzpah for the person who was the chief implementer of the
President's policy on this issue to admit to have poo-pooed it all along, and then depict himself as
"the resident skeptic," a "little black cloud." How cynical!
So far, at least, the Obama team seems like it really means it, like it
really is trying.
Continue reading New WJW op-ed: U.S. peace pursuits - finally - look serious.