Emphraim Sneh wrote one of the wisest and most hopeful analyses of the Arab-Israeli peace process that I have seen in the New York Times in quite a while (“Lift the Mideast Roadblocks,” Mar. 12). The politics of the conflict is about settling scores and blaming the other for the impasse, but what Sneh is advocating is more practical. The crimes of the past are important and relevant, of course, but many of the problems of the present have practical solutions that are worth implementing despite the hard feelings on all sides. The Arab-Israeli conflict has long ceased to be a conflict between Arabs and Jews. Over the past few decades, it has morphed into a conflict between those who advance the two-state solution (and its implications) and those who oppose the two-state solution. When the conflict is conceived in those terms, Arabs and Jews can be (and often are) on the same side.
UPDATE: The Times published my letter!
Letters From a Concerned Citizen 