This piece in the NY Times by Leon Wieseltier is so wrong on so many levels that I have to bring attention to it.

Must Peace Wait for Democracy?

Somehow, Mr. Wieseltier believes that it's OK for a country, or a people to be ruled by an autocratic region as long as they keep their hands to themselves.

The view that his failure to make peace with Israel was owed to his failure to govern justly is refuted by Israel's experience with some of its neighboring regimes. The peace with autocratic Egypt is frigid, and Hosni Mubarak's use of anti-Semitism to divert the political energies of his population is disgusting, but the peace with Egypt is strong, and its chill is preferable to the fire of war.

Does he not think that by having a formal policy of hatred against Jews that Egypt is not sowing the seeds for further conflict? Is he not aware that Egyptians are allowing Palestinian militants to funnel arms over the border into Gaza?

Is Israel wrong in it's desire to be treated as a neighbor instead of an outcast not to be dealt with?