Tony Judt talks some sense

I appreciate that the New York Times printed the Op-Ed "Fictions on the Ground" by the historian Tony Judt. For some reason, the Times feels comfortable letting Judt, and Judt alone, critique Israeli policy without putting a Washington spin (read: lies) on the language.  

When Walt and Mearsheimer published "The Israel Lobby," it was Judt who the Times trusted to break the tricky subject to U.S. liberals (and they required him to write in his essay that he was Jewish).  I hope that language more like Judt's will become the norm, but i am skeptical that this will happen.