Status quo is not OK

There is an interesting symmetry between Tom Friedman’s NYT column saying the Peace movement died in Israel in part because the status quo is “ok” and the Israeli press reporting that Syria’s Bashir al-Assad is telling the PA that that they are making a mistake in having renounced violence.  Friedman, of course, would have a cow about this link, but it clearly follows from his persuasive argument that Israel has no interest in peace because the staus quo is not so bad.