The Bullet That Rode a Crest

My most recent contribution to HuffPo:

Fifteen years after Rabin, the Palestinian Authority, led by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and President Mahmoud Abbas, has finally passed its Altalena moment. The West Bank, which for over four decades had been a volatile, fractured frontier, now has both the infrastructure and security forces in place for political viability. While there are still a number of problems there, economic growth has made the West Bank a place where the building of a Palestinian state has finally become more interesting than the destruction of an Israeli one.