Yossi Beilin

Well, they were always wrong because the lobby imposed its will on one American president after another.

So none of those Israeli politicians, Yossi Sarri, Shulamit Oloni, Chaim Ramon, Yossi Beilin, none of them were able to become prime minister.

Instead, the politicians that won elections were those that pandered to Israeli fantasies and fears about being able to do whatever they wanted in the West Bank and Gaza, build settlements wherever they wanted, ignore the Palestinian question, and the United States would still give them $3 billion a year, still guarantee qualitative military support.

still defend them diplomatically at the UN and so on.