Here’s Mort Zuckerman at US News & World Report saying that only Israel can defend its borders (wherever they are) and therefore we can’t have a two-state solution, and for security reasons the Palestinians must exist in political paralysis forever.

This is straight-up Israel lobby stuff (Kosovo and Tajikistan and Pakistan get a state, never the Palestinians) but what’s bizarre is Zuckerman’s casual derision for American military efforts in the region even as he applauds Israel’s efforts.

He says that in Lebanon, 1982, "a few hundred French and American service members" were killed in a failed U.N. effort. True, but weirdly cold; is there any acknowledgment of the importance of that event? 241 Americans died; Wikipedia says, "The attack remains the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II."

Also, notice Zuckerman’s casual reference to the "failure" of NATO troops in Afghanistan. I agree, it’s a failure. But the Israeli occupation is a roaring success? Zuckerman: