So he should be able to post an opinion piece written by himself on the front page. But it's incredibly rare when Josh does so, and like this one, important enough to justify its placing.

Here's the line that made me stop, re-read it and cheer:

...getting out of the West Bank doesn't endanger Israel. It's actually critical to the country's future well-being, even its survival.

Absolute sense. Perfect logic, even if impossible to be understood by neocretins.

As counter-intuitive as it may seem, defenselessness can be the best defense. This is a tenet of the 12-Step mindset. Not many people get far enough to understand it, but it works MOST of the time.

Israel will never have peace if it doesn't withdraw from its illegal settlements. That is a guarantee. The last forty years have proven that once and for all. Josh knows this. Josh is a reasonable man. Neoconservatives, American as well as Israeli, do not.

There is no guarantee that Israel will have peace if and when it withdraws from the illegal settlements in the West Bank. But there is a guarantee that there will be no peace if it does NOT withdraw. Peace lies in one direction only--justice.

And the notion that Israel is 'threatened' by Doing The Right Thing is utter nonsense. I've had enough of this tough talk/refusal to cow to terrorists to last the rest of my life. It doesn't work. Negotiation is the only thing that WILL work, if ANYTHING.

And making fun of this, ridiculing it, claiming it's appeasement, etc, is the grossest kind of kindergarten populist garbage you can find under the nearest rock.