State of the state: the Israeli left pushed Gaza withdrawal for years. Now, it's happened--and the left is in a shambles. But there may be a way out.

DRIVING ON THE FOUR-LANE HIGHWAY PAST THE cushy American-style Tel Aviv suburb of Ra'anana to the Jewish settlement of Ariel, there's a clear drop in the countryside from green trees to brown, rocky hilltops. This is the "Green Line," the 1967 border. There are no checkpoints to mark contested land because the road was built explicitly for Jewish settlers who live in Ariel and the surrounding settlements to bypass neighboring Arab villages.

Ariel is about 14 miles into the heart of the West Bank, surrounded by several smaller settlements, two robust, modern industrial ...

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