The Best Hope for Peace Is the Israeli Left. Don’t Abandon Them.

The violently frenetic ebbs and flows of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict trick our grasp of time and memory. At one point in time, many leftists viewed Israel, and their Israeli Labor Party Zionist comrades specifically, with kinship. That seems rather unimaginable today.

It shouldn’t be. The Israeli left is an indispensable natural ally in the struggle for a purportedly shared goal: peace and two states.

Cynics and status quo beneficiaries insist it’s untimely—delusional—to mention peace, let alone two states, in the throes of war and especially after what the world witnessed on Oct. 7. But the tragedies and traumas of today demand that we sow the seeds for what must come, because Israelis and Palestinians can’t return to what was.

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