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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or add your name and email to my blog announcement list. Thanks for visiting!I read Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars in a Philosophy course when I was at Tufts University in the late 70’s and have often picked it off my […]

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Had lunch with my friend David on Friday. We went to his favorite restaurant, named for and owned by his best friend, Samir, in Ramle, not to be confused with Ramalla. The latter is in the West Bank and the former is in Israel proper and is one of the few integrated cities in which […]

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I just spent a wonderful Shabbat in Efrat with my dear friends. Not only is it wonderful to spend time with friends, and to spend Shabbat in a community where 99% of the people are also celebrating Shabbat, but they give me a perspective on Israel I don’t get in the news or on websites.
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Some articles are too great to cite with only a link. This needs to be read in its entirety, but if you only have a minute, at least read this excerpt…
A Moral Outrage - by Mortimer Zuckerman in US News and World Report
The world applauded when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, forcibly removing Jewish […]

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If you are one of those who cannot distinguish between a sovereign nation defending itself and the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by terrorists, you need to read Ending the “Cycle of Violence.” at HonestReporting.com. Oh heck, even if you do know the difference, go read it, it is a fine, well reasoned, article.
I’m not so […]

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