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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz notes that Netanyahu, in his speech to AIPAC, "repeated a mantra that has defined his thinking throughout his adult life...that hatred of radical Islam for Israel has nothing to do with what Israel does, but stems from the fact that Israel is the West's outpost in the Middle East. Ergo, his reasoning implies, Israel can continue doing whatever it wants. The fallacy in Netanyahu's argument is fateful: He takes a grain of truth and builds the wrong argument around it. While there are indeed deep reasons for some aspects of Arab rejectionism, Netanyahu's way of thinking and his policies have become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and are making peaceful coexistence of Israel with the Arab world impossible in the long run."

This article critiques the past approaches used to address the Israel situation, and encourages AIPAC to abandon the zero-give policy that it has clung to and to seek peace through compromise and negotiation.