Israel in the New York Times

Two interesting opinion pieces regarding the situation in Israel in the New York Times today. The first, which can be found here, is by Thomas Friedman who has written for many years about the conflict in the Middle East as well as other international affairs (Friedman incidentally lives on a huge estate on a major road like ten minutes from my house back in Maryland. His front yard is probably like 7 acres or something). The second article, which can be found here, is by Jeffrey Goldberg a writer for the Atlantic Monthly (Goldberg served in the IDF and worked as a prison guard). Both articles focus on the viability of a peaceful arising out of the current conflict.