A New Yorker book review presents a simplistic and facile rendition of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process -- positing that its failure is due to Israeli settlements and that the deleterious role of the Palestinians is irrelevant. 
On Yom Ha'Atzmaut, The New Yorker posted a blog lacking in journalistic merit but brimming with malice toward the Jewish State.
Ari Shavit's Lydda, 1948 is yet another dreary effort at putting Israel under the microscope, at indicting the Jews and Zionists for their many sins, whether real or, as in this New Yorker article, imagined. 
David Remnick's false diagnosis of an Israel veering uncontrollably to the right helps sustain the fashionable but unhelpful view the Palestinians have no active role in the conflict, and no responsibility for its course. 
David Remnick has a problem with Israel and pines for the day that PM Netanyahu will "leave behind" his "right-wing" ideology. Remnick has no such problems with the Palestinians, or their various ideologies, most of which have no place for a Jewish state in their midst.