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May 9, 2017

International Guarantees Are No Substitute for Durable Peace Treaties

There’s no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.

The Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin famously told American diplomats, who were offering international security reassurances to back up a putative peace deal with the Palestinians, that “there is no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.” This has not prevented similar arrangements from being proposed ever since. But, as David Makovsky notes, Israel had learned Begin’s dictum the hard way in 1967:

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May 9, 2017

  1. International Guarantees Are No Substitute for Durable Peace Treaties

    There’s no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.

  2. Last Week Left Mahmoud Abbas Strengthened and Hamas Weakened

    A White House visit and a public-relations stunt.

  3. The Executive Order on Religious Liberty Is Feeble and Ineffective

    “A vague and unworkable mishmash that has the potential to make the problem worse.”

  4. The Making of a New York Jewish Intellectual

    Making It turns 50.

  5. Love Your Neighbor as Yourself—Whatever His Religion

    Leviticus’ universal commandment.