This one's just for fun:

Meanwhile, anyone who was even remotely pro-Israel insisted that the unity government would fail because - really deep down - a lot of Palestinians just want to murder Jews. It didn't seem to matter how far left people were - if they were honest about the situation, they knew in advance that it would fail one way or another. But not the director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute. He looked at the same set of events and announced that they could be quite significant, and a source for optimism.

Now that we know who was right and who was wrong - again - please remind us why these people have any credibility at all. Other then the fact that they feed subtle and not so subtle anti-Israel "expert opinion" to journalists and academics alike...

Previously: Academics Who Attack Israel are Brave if Brave Means "Doing Things All Your Colleagues Who Agree With You Will Tell You That You Were Brave for Doing", Walt and Mearsheimer's Best Defense For Their Anti-Semitic-ish Accusations Is In Trouble, Juan Cole Is So Incoherent That We Have To Believe He's Doing It On Purpose - Global Wave Of Moderate Islam Edition