“Benjamin Netanyahu knows that the bigger a decision in Israel is, the more it comes down to the prime minister alone. That the more rigid and uncompromising that a prime minister is perceived by the Israeli public, the more strongly that the public will support his concessions and compromises. And the bigger a government, the truer all of this is.

Here is a man whose greatest talents are exactly those needed to sell a peace process to the Israeli public: packaging and marketing.

Benjamin Netanyahu has every ounce of the intelligence, imagination, sense of history, political savvy, electoral strength and human courage needed to forge a workable peace with the Palestinians. If he chooses to pursue a real peace, whoever captures the White House in November will strongly support it.

Israel will give Netanyahu every chance at this, every shot he needs at making exactly this kind of history. The question now is, will Benjamin Netanyahu give himself that chance?”

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