Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. His book, Saving Israel, won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award. The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness is Actually Its Greatest Strength will be published in August 2012.
To state publicly that what we have in Judea and Samaria is not an occupation might be legally justifiable. But it would also signal that it is time to give up thinking about a different Middle East.
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