I can’t find a linkable transcript, but PM Netanyahu’s remarks last night at the White House to inaugurate the renewed peace process were really commendable.

President Abbas, you are my partner in peace. And it is up to us, with the help of our friends, to conclude the agonizing conflict between our peoples and to afford them a new beginning. The Jewish people are not strangers in our ancestral homeland, the land of our forefathers. But we recognize that another people shares this land with us.

I came here today to find an historic compromise that will enable both our peoples to live in peace and security and in dignity. I’ve been making the case for Israel all of my life. But I didn’t come here today to make an argument. I came here today to make peace. I didn’t come here today to play a blame game where even the winners lose. Everybody loses if there’s no peace. I came here to achieve a peace that will bring a lasting benefit to us all.

Obviously negotiation awaits, and then implementation. He doesn’t commit himself to anything. But this is precisely the kind of framework that’s conducive to both. It’s a preamble, not an endpoint communique. Don’t make me a fool for hoping, man.