How Biden Can Be a Leader in an Israeli-Palestinian Conflict That Has None

Despite Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow that Israeli airstrikes will continue in “full force” and an unremitting barrage of Hamas missiles, this round of fighting, which has killed 200 Palestinians and 11 Israelis, will end as all others have—without having achieved any discernible or lasting political goals.

Historically, war, insurgency and violence have produced breakthroughs in the Arab-Israeli conflict. But those breakthroughs were initiated by the kinds of leaders who are glaringly missing from the current scene. There is no Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, King Hussein, Shimon Peres or even...