From NYRB, Avishai Margalit reviews Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine by David Shulman. Young pioneers toil in the Israeli desert: The Negev Desert is a desolate place — not somewhere you would expect to find young Israeli students. But a small group of them has chosen to live there, to work for their country's future and for peace. From Monthly Review, a critique of the Arab Left: On Palestine and Arab unity. A review of Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Memoir by Sari Nusseibeh. A review of books on the formation of Hizbollah and Hamas, and what they bode for the Arab world’s future. An article on why Hamas should have been invited to Annapolis. The real two-state solution: President Bush's peace summit for Israelis and Palestinians ignores a painful truth — one that we are already living in the Middle East. Anatol Lieven on how America holds the key to Mideast peace: The greatest hope lies in US patriotism and the extent to which the establishment takes the Islamist threat seriously. A review of Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Amy Dockser; Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren; and Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky.
