Podhoretz in Israel

Norman Podhoretz, the purported intellectual leader of the "neo-con cabal", recently traveled to Israel to receive briefings on the state of the country. In this article he describes his conversations with a number of the leaders of the Right in Israel Much of the conversations focus, as would be expected, on the disengagement plan and what it will mean for Israel. Podhoretz is cautiously optimistic that the disengagement plan, and the continuing transformation of the Middle East according to the Bush Doctrine, will demonstrate if the Palestinians are truly ready to live in peace or if the idea of a Palestinian state will be put off into the distant future.