SYNOPSIS

This volume contains 11 articles originally published in Commentary assessing the reasons for the failure of the Mideast peace process. Contributors include, for example, former Jerusalem Post editor David Bar-Illan, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith, and Israeli parliament member Yuval Steinitz. In the afterword, novelist Mark Helprin considers what Israel must do to survive in light of the September 11 attack on the U.S. The volume does not contain bibliographical references.