s--either there will be love among the combatants or there will be disaster.
Posner takes an entirely different view of the situation, choosing instead a scenario which asks neither side to change its spots but rather asks both sides to consider the hideous alternative to reasonable compromise.
Posner writes that the only truly workable solution to the enmity between Arab and Jew is, first of all, an acceptance that such an enmity exists and that it is not going to go away, no matter how diligent the negotiators from outside the region may be or how hopeful they are of changing the realities of the situation in that region.
The only real solution is the acceptance that there will never truly be a solution to this enmity. Only then can there be hope that a compromise, that a rea
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