How To Rebuild Neoconservatism: Palestine, Ctd

I guess I didn't expect much of a response to my post yesterday and I wasn't disappointed. But I am not the first to make this case. Back when democracy-building in the Arab world was a major neoconservative theme, my current boss, James Bennet, then NYT's correspondent in Jerusalem, wrote two pieces. From May 2002:

It is perhaps Pollyannaish even to conjure the scenario, at such a dark moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations. But imagine the effect on Israeli fears about Palestinian...