It's not about borders - it's about existence

I don't know where the Washington Post finds these people.Today's edition features an op-ed column by John Waterbury, the President of the American University in Beirut. Waterbury decries what he refers to as the 'status quo' in the Middle East. He lists reasons why nearly every actor in the region has preferred the status quo since his not-so-randomly chosen starting point of 1967:Israel has