The latest New York Review of Books contains an excellent analysis of the failed peace process by Nathan Thrall: “Israel and the U.S.: The Delusions of Our Diplomacy.” The thrust of the piece (which will be no surprise to those who read Rashid Khalidi’s book) is that the US perpetuates the conflict even as it insists on mediating it because it fails to pressure Israel to allow the creation of even a “small, poor, and strategically inconsequential Palestinian state.”