With Israel unleashed, there can be no peace in the Middle East

In the 20th century, the United States sponsored two peace agreements between Israel and Arab states, and it was close to securing a third, decisive one with Syria.

These agreements came after decades of successive wars: The 1956 Tripartite Aggression, the 1967 Naksa, the October 1973 war, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1978, and its invasion of Beirut in 1982.

Yet in recent years, the US...