Will the Real Palestinian Please Stand Up!

Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: ‘Yids, go back to Palestine,’ so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: ‘Yids, get out of Palestine.’ Thus wrote Amos Oz (a renowned left-leaning author) in his book, A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004). So […]

Healing from Collective Trauma – Identifying The Real Nakba

When the dust settles and a recently invented Palestinian people will have their own state (or not – but we will assume for the moment that such a state will arise), how will they heal from their collective trauma? When they will be free to evaluate what really happened to them, will they re-define their […]

While Eyes Are On Syria, Abbas Wants to Cancel Oslo

Looks like Abbas is scrambling, looking for a way to hang onto the little he has. Apparently, the threatened cancellation of the Oslo Accords is a step toward unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. If, in summer 2014, Egypt considered giving up part of the Sinai to build a large and sustainable Palestine contiguous with Gaza, […]

Sam Harris: Not an Antisemite and Not Pro-Zionist

Sam Harris thinks there is no rational basis for the existence of a national Jewish homeland in the Middle East (or anywhere else) because he does not support land claims based on the Bible. Wait! Before you get all huffy and label him an antisemite (as I was all set to do when I started […]

Is Our Only Hope Via a Strong Arm Policy? (Exodus 13:17-14:31)

The Pharoah finally let the Israelites leave, and there was a short way to Israel and a long way. The short way was through the land of the Philistines (Pelesht), an area currently known as Gaza. The long way was through Sinai and into Israel via the Jordan River. This verse states that God did […]