Bye-Bye Hasbara: It’s not about Hamas

06.06.2021 ________________________________________ Public diplomacy in Israel, known as Hasbara, is a well-known and until recently successfully deployed PR effort to Continue reading →

Amritsar.Sharpeville.Gaza: Will It Never End?

05.20.2018 _________________________________________  Gaza is red with blood, dark in grief, mired in poverty and dysfunction, yet not without dignity. In Continue reading →

Black Swans Resist: It’s Their State, Too

04.28.2018 ________________________________________ ‘What? You’ve never seen The Maltese Falcon? I’ll lend it to you – you have to see it Continue reading →

‘Peace Isn’t Something Simply to be Desired. It Follows from Justice’

07.27.2014 _____________________ In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict there are competing narratives. One land, two peoples, each with just claims. Each must Continue reading →

Faith, culture and conflict; resistance and terrorism

Jul. 20, 2014________ “They do not know, nor do they comprehend; for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot Continue reading →

Enlightenment and Pathos Sadly Missing

11.25.2012 _____________________ “But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof.”   Continue reading →

Hamas and Netanyahu Fear a Loss of Power

10.30.2011 _____________________ “I hope this deal will help us reach peace between the Israeli and Palestinian sides and there won’t Continue reading →