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Sheikh Hassan Yusef of Hamas has extended an olive branch: “This may surprise you,” he said Monday, “but a ‘hudna’ — a cease-fire, should be between two sides who agree to live together side by side. Such a ‘hudna’ could be for 10 years and could be extended.” This will doubtless be music to the ears of large segments of the American punditocracy, and to no one more than to Mark LeVine of the University of California at Irvine. Last summer LeVine declared in a widely-reprinted article: “It is time for the United States to declare a truce with the...