Shlomo Ben Ami - the public security minister and a leading member of the government's negotiating team with the Palestinians - has, by contrast, been damaged by his association with Ehud Barak.
But the popular response to the unilateralist thesis enunciated by such senior figures as Haim Ramon and Shlomo Ben-Ami was too strong for Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the party's chairman, to withstand.
"It's evident that there are things being done that are impacting the Iranian nuclear program, " Mr. Ben-Ami said.
Mr Ben-Ami argues that a failure of leadership has throughout been a major cause of the calamity that has befallen the Palestinians.
Its cautious founder, Jeremy Ben-Ami, has been quick to distance himself, and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has been quick to pounce.
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In part, argues Mr Ben-Ami, this reflected a wider Palestinian preoccupation with vindication and justice, at the expense of a pragmatic search for a solution.
The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Jeremy Ben-Ami.
In the hopes of winning over the likes of Sahfe, then-prime minister Ehud Barak and then-foreign minister and public security minister Shlomo Ben-Ami rejected the Vatican's objections.
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And yet, because of the choke-hold that Kampeas and Ben-Ami's Israeli counterparts have held over the national discourse, the Israeli people have been given no other option to consider.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the lobbying group J Street, which is pro-Israel but less hawkish than others, said Mr. Obama's comments show there was no need to rush to military action.
But both sides were still waiting for the decision of a ministerial committee, set up by Mr Netanyahu but now under the chairmanship of Shlomo Ben-Ami, the new internal security minister.
Wary about Islamist reaction (a wariness strengthened by the discovery that the people behind a botched bomb attack in Israel last month were supporters of the Islamist movement in Galilee), Mr Ben-Ami sought a compromise.
Mr Ben-Ami concludes by arguing that it is time for both parties to realise that to continue to insist on the complete satisfaction of their respective dreams and presumed rights will lead them both to perdition.
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