Mercy or Justice? A question that concerns not only Israel.
A Facebook post from 17 January resonated with me and I offer it to you for your reflection. It is still relevant today. One of my kids (not mine, Sara’s) told me yesterday that sometimes “you can’t be like [Israeli philosopher and author] Micah Goodman and quietly think and see both sides. Sometimes you have […]
Tal Hartuv talks about justice, mercy, and risking letting go
After having been a strong spokeswoman combatting the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay salaries-and-retirement-plan for terrorists, Tal Hartuv went silent for a number of years. After Oct 7th, she began speaking publicly again. In this interview, she speaks about balance, choiceless choices, justice, mercy, and refusing to remain a perpetual ‘hostage’ of victimhood. She talks about how […]
Hostage Deal: Both Sides of the Coin
We ALL want ALL the hostages home. We all want the surviving hostages reunited with their families and beginning the work of rehabilitation and building their futures and we want the bodies of the deceased hostages home for proper burial and to allow their families to finally mourn their loss. But not all of us […]
Israel’s “Sophie’s Choice” hostage deal would drive anyone to drink
In American author William Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, Sophie was forced, at Auschwitz, to choose which of her two children would be sent to the gas chamber and which would live. Should she have refrained from choosing, both would die. That is the nature of the choice facing our leadership having to negotiate hostage deals […]
This is what Israelis should be arguing about.
My bias is showing here. I believe that all the demonstrations in Israel insisting that the government accept a deal NOW, accept ceasefire NOW are working against the better interests of both the state in general and the hostages in particular. I bring to you a few of those who see it this way too. […]
Please tell me how a general strike makes sense.
It took me till the end of writing this article for me to finally see what this strike could have been good for. I am telling you this up front because, if you are like those who read the last page of a novel before beginning at the beginning, you might want to go there […]
Psychological terror: Are we smart enough, strong enough to avoid falling for it?
Wow. This is psychological terrorism at its most sophisticated. I feel caught in a trap — and I am not the one who has the weight of the nation on my shoulders. I am not the one who has the responsibility or authority to make any decisions. I am just a simple citizen, trying to […]