Zelikow out

Philip Zelikow, the only person at the State Department who seems to have a clue about the importance of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is on his way out. He's the guy who said this last September:

For the Arab moderates and for the Europeans, some sense of progress and momentum on the Arab-Israeli dispute is just a sine qua non for their ability to cooperate actively with the United States on a lot of other things that we care about.

They say he's not being fired, and I certainly hope they didn't fire him for saying this, but I sure wish someone would listen to him. From what I can tell, no one in government seems to think there is any urgency to solving this problem.