Many weeks ago on this blog, I asked rhetorically what we all thought might have happened in the occupied territories if the Palestinian resistance had been, since 1967, nonviolent. I ventured a guess that they might have had their state in 20 years' time.
Now comes a brilliant and important piece on this very question, called The Missing Mahatma by my friend Gershom Gorenberg, writing in, of all unlikely places, the Weekly Standard. Gershom is a man of the left and a more frequent contributor to my old mag, the American Prospect, a liberal rag I assure you.
How this ended up in Murdoch's Standard is a question I don't know the answer to, but I have to say, kudos to them for running it. And I wouldn't care if it appeared in Soap Opera Digest, or for that matter the Volkischer Beobachter. It's an amazing piece of journalism.
Gorenberg skillfully unveils the layers of a complex story over a few thousand words. It's not the kind of piece that I can grab a graf from and put it in blockquote. You just have to read it. But really, take the time. Great stuff.
