Now's the Time for Israel to Make Peace With Iran
The shifting sands in the Middle East have elicited surprising alliances and rapprochements between sworn enemies. Is an agreement with the Islamic Republic really science fiction?
The dramatic changes that have occurred in the Middle East during the past decade have called into question many seemingly self-evident assumptions. Some regional powers have declined, others have risen, and alliances have been forged between those who just yesterday were adversaries. The right wing under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu habitually accuses the left of being stuck in a 1990s mindset and of seeing present-day reality through the long-irrelevant prism of the Oslo period. In some cases those accusations have a modicum of truth. But there’s one common assumption held by almost the entire Zionist political spectrum in Israel, a notion no one doubts: the necessity of rivalry between Israel and Iran.