This was written by Akiva Eldar, who in this case, is taking us on a guided tour of Middle East History. That means that we see what he wants us to see, we don’t see what he doesn’t want us to see. Beginning here:

This article focuses on the Israeli side of this equation in part because the Palestinian leadership, as far back as 1988, made a strategic decision favoring the two-state solution, presented in the Algiers declaration of the Palestinian National Council.

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So, for Palestinian leadership, peace was a done deal. And we can begin to examine the regional politics with one eye closed. Sewed shut.

This trip is not worth the two bits. Go Labor Party. Rah rah.