Bernie Avishai is an influential Israeli-American columnist, embraced by liberal Zionists, a speaker at J Street’s conference. He goes to Sheikh Jarrah demonstrations. Here he approvingly cites Howard Sachar’s recipe (at Foreign Policy) for a US-imposed solution in Israel/Palestine, to create two states (thanks to Ofer):
More specifically, will U.S. President Barack Obama grasp the opportunity to jump-start a reasonable version of the Quartet’s master plan for the Holy Land? It is a formulation, after all, that reflects the weight not only of its sponsors’ best collective judgment and self-interests but also of their untapped collective powers of enforcement, including the selective bestowal or withdrawal of diplomatic, economic, or military support.
P.S. Avishai seems to favor gov’t sanctions, but not boycott and divestment. From the Nation last year:
Sanction the Israeli government for activities that obstruct peacemaking. Hurt the settlements. But boycott and divest from the private sector, and you may¨create an economic implosion. Israel’s ratio of debt to GDP looks eerily like that of the weakest EU economies. Unlike Greece, Israel has a rising class of cosmopolitan entrepreneurs who have been politically complacent, especially during the second intifada and Bush administration. But only they can lead the country out of political crisis—and only if they can hold on to their prestige, which is itself rooted in international commerce
