In answer to the title question, the combustible Mr. Zion could only wish it were: "... the whole Oslo accord and Rabin said and Peres said: No Palestinian state. So you see what happens? Now you get more terror, now you have to have a Palestinian state.... Right now they've got enough arms to arm 50,000 people, much of that given to them, in what I consider a great crime, by Shimon Peres. He armed his enemy." To Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Hauser, the issue, as Mr. Lewis phrases it, "is whether there is a better chance for peace with a Palestinian state alongside of Israel, two stable, civil entities, or whether it's better to have Palestinians having to be under the thumb of Israeli armed

forces and Israel having the burden of perpetual occupation. That is a recipe for disaster for Israel." No consensus is possible, but the two sides are laid out as clearly as we could wish.