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In the fights over the future of Israel and Palestine, in which enmities are often understood to be both ancient and eternal, Peter Beinart is the rare figure to have come unstuck. Having made his name as a stalwart of liberal Zionism and a prominent center-left supporter of the Iraq War, both as an editor of
The New Republic and a familiar face on cable news, Beinart has spent much of the past decade reconsidering those positions. Last summer, he made a clean break. âThe painful truth is that the project to which liberal Zionists like myself have devoted ourselves for decadesâa state for Palestinians separated from a state for Jewsâhas failed,â Beinart wrote, in a long essay for