Ponder

Martin Sherman asked me to persue and ponder this:

In 1999 I wrote:

"…the structure of the bargain required to be struck between [Israel] and the Arabs seems inherently irresolvable. For whatever appears to be even minimally adequate…for Israel, seems to be totally inadequate… for the Arabs".

Martin Sherman, The Politics of Water in the Middle East (Macmillan,1999), p. 94

A decade later, Giora Eiland wrote

" …the maximum that any government of Israel will be ready to offer the Palestinians and still survive… is much less than the minimum that any Palestinian leader can accept.

Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, former head of Israel's National Security Council, The Future of the Two-State Solution 2009

Will it now take an additional decade to for the nation's policy makers to recognize the inevitability of this impasse and incorporate this recognition into practical policy?