Nearly 70 years ago, then-British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan supposedly observed that it wasn’t fair to call the Arab-Israeli situation a problem, since by definition problems have solutions. Of course that was just a rhetorical dodge, and no more accurate when it comes to math and science than about global affairs. But the dark joke still resonates: Macmillan and his transatlantic pal Dwight Eisenhower were among the first world leaders to confront the Middle East dilemma by kicking the can down the road, as Mitt Romney didn’t exactly say in 2012.

With Benjamin Netanyahu’s government waging an endless war of annihilation in Gaza — now with the explicit goal of reconquering the entire territory — and the Israeli Knesset on record as favoring the annexation of the entire West Bank, gl

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