Here, Ajami writes an ode to Zionism. But what do you expect: he even is ignorant of basic facts. He says: "Although outgunned and outnumbered, the Jews prevailed." Of course, it was the other way round: Arab forces were both outgunned and outnumbered. Students who have taken one course on the Middle East know better. Ajami used to write at least mildly interesting (but never insightful) essays back in the 1980s: now he is reduced to recycling cliches found in brochures circulated by Israeli embassies around the world.