TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: Victor Davis Hanson is quoted:

But there is one final consideration for those smug utopian architects in our state department and Europe that is completely forgotten in all this. There will be no second Holocaust. If almost all of the West Bank is returned, as is likely, and in a few years hostilities nevertheless resume as they did during phases 1-3 of the Middle East wars, as is also likely, the battle will be over Israel itself, not Palestinian land. That will be a war Israel will not lose, and it will be fought outside not inside the Jewish state. And that will be a nightmare compared to the current crisis. Those in Europe and in the United States who now lecture about morality will then prove to be not only amoral, but also answerable for far, far more still.

Worth noting now. One wonders, however, if some of the Metternichs involved actually hope to provoke an Israeli/Iran gotterdammerung, so that Israel can solve a lot of problems and take the blame too.