My first dealings with Madeleine Albright were at the 1988 Democratic Convention. I was representing the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson, while she represented the Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis. The nominee’s team had written rather stale platform language about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, speaking only about support for Israel and vaguely endorsing the Camp David Accords. Palestinians weren’t mentioned at all. Jackson had won enough delegates during the primaries to ...