A World Without Israel

Foreign Policy, jan/feb 2005 (digital). Cover story (p36-42) by Josef Joffe. Imagine that Israel never existed. Would the economic malaise that drives angry young men to become suicide bombers vanish? Would the Palestinians have an independent state? Would the United States find itself beloved throughout the Muslim world? Wishful thinking. Far from creating tensions, Israel's existence actually contains more problems than it creates. > In Stylo's Shop