I don’t quite know what to make of the last sentence in the posted article re “... all should be praying [Bush] succeeds.” That’s because a Pali state and Israeli-Palestinian “peace” are incompatible with each other, barring the appearance of a Ghandi-type Palestinian leader, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Anyone representing Fatah or Hamas is certainly not a reasonable nor reliable “peace partner.”
Anyone thinking there will be a Israeli-Palestinian “peace” as long as there is an Israel is a total nutjob.
Here's what I make of it: a liberal columnist simply expressing the typical, credulous, liberal line -- that peace is possible between barbarians and civilized society by appeasing the former.