Peter Beinart is senior political writer at the blog The
Daily Beast, associate professor of journalism and political
science at the City University of New York and a Schwartz
Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. This article
is based on his keynote address to the New Israel Fund
conference in Tel Aviv-Jaffa held on June 28, 2010 under
the heading “The Only Democracy in the Middle East? A
Battle for Israel’s Soul.”