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Izzy and the Other Zionism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Mark Bruzonsky
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Shortly after Camp David, The New York Review of Books blessed the Egyptian- Israeli deal Jimmy Carter had stumbled on. I.F. (Izzy) Stone's by-line heralding Camp David as "The Hope" neutralized legions of skeptics. "This is the beginning of peace between Israel and the Arabs and that is a prime event of history," Izzy proclaimed.

That issue of NYRB arrived just as I was leaving for London, and I took it along on the flight. I was impressed, though not fully convinced, by Izzy's enlightened prophecy. I had just written for Worldview my own rather restrained judgment that "At best the Carter-inspired formula is an uneasy, unstable beginning to what might eventually become a firmer Middle East accommodation.

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Worldview , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , March 1979 , pp. 47 - 49
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1979

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