One year since his passing, political thinker Shlomo Avineri's legacy is ever more relevant for an injured Jewish state. Avineri's realism surfaced tellingly in 1989, when he dismissed as naïve Francis Fukuyama's End of History claim that the Cold War's end marked the 'endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution' and liberal democracy's emergence as 'the final form of human government.' The diplomatic wisdom is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be fully 'solved' at this stage of its history. Avineri thus expected no comprehensive peace agreement but thought a less pretentious deal, one that would avoid currently insolvable issues like refugees and Jerusalem, was both reachable and imperative. Avineri may well have turned to his most successful book, The Making of Modern Zionism (1981), which presented, one by one, diverse versions of Zionism, from the spiritualistic Ahad Ha'am to the nationalistic Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and from the Marxist Dov Ber Borochov to the messianic mystic Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook.