

Missing an Opportunity
At the Geneva Peace Conference in 1973, Abba Eban quipped that the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Will Israel now miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity? The WSJ (Wall Street Journal, Tuesday May 16, 2017) featured a column about changes in the Arab world. You may recall that Dennis Ross, when he spoke here in St. Louis last fall, briefly noted internal changes in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States’ (Sunni) change in attitudes toward Israel, parti