The Short and The Long Of It October 26, 2023 Bill Maher on Israel (a couple of years ago) — under two minutes. Tom Friedman on what needs to happen — long but worth it. And Steven Erlanger — also long but worth it, concluding: Only Washington, which now has unprecedented moral prestige in Israel, is capable of assembling the pieces from this war, said Bernard Avishai, an American-Israeli who has taught at both Dartmouth College and Hebrew University. “Only the United States can provide some degree of hope,” he said, that a new paradigm will be established “in which Palestinian self-determination will finally be addressed.” American statements on a two-state solution and the settlements “have been seen as platitudes,” he added. “But to do something concrete now, it’s not too late.”