Once Rabin had thought through a decision, you couldn’t argue him out of it. But he had the courage to admit his mistakes. I remember when he came to Washington in December 1988 and said that Israel’s military could quickly put down an emerging Palestinian uprising. I disagreed, warning that Palestinians’ frustrations could not simply be suppressed. Rabin later told me I was right. (The uprising became the prolonged period of unrest known as the First Intifada.) He had come to understand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had no military solution—only a political one. Three decades later, too many Israeli leaders still reject that core insight.