Kevin Drum  What's the Endgame for Israel?  | Mon Mar. 3, 2014
7:49 PM GMT  Jeffrey Goldberg interviews President Obama about
the future prospects for Israel if it continues to refuse to
negotiate seriously about the creation of a Palestinian state:
OBAMA: I have not yet heard, however, a persuasive vision of how
Israel survives as a democracy and a Jewish state at peace with
its neighbors in the absence of a peace deal with the
Palestinians and a two-state solution. Nobody has presented me a
credible scenario....Do you resign yourself to what amounts to a
permanent occupation of the West Bank? Is that the character of
Israel as a state for a long period of time? Do you perpetuate,
over the course of a decade or two decades, more and more
restrictive policies in terms of Palestinian movement? Do you
place restrictions on Arab-Israelis in ways that run counter to
Israel’s traditions?  GOLDBERG: You sound worried.  OBAMA: Well,
I am being honest that nobody has provided me with a clear
picture of how this work