“In the media age, it is easy to fall prey to historical amnesia. But it is the job of Israel’s spokesman to remind the world, ad nauseam, that ours is a crisis that began in 1948 and has not really abated since; that UN resolutions are sequential and the one that brought Israel into existence predates the one calling on it to withdraw from territories occupied in 1967; that the current wave of terrorism is not a means to an end, but an expression of the end.”