Dreams Fulfilled Are Imperfect.

Now, Israel Is A Fulfillment, And As A Fulfillment, It Is Flawed. The Fact That It Is Flawed Is Not So Much A Testimony About The Failures Of Israel. No, It Is A Testimony About The Nature Of Dreams.

Israel Has Obviously Not Liberated The Palestinians In Gaza Or The West Bank. We Have Occupied Them, But We Have Not Liberated Them.

If We Don't Stop Somewhere, If We Don't Accept An Unhappy Compromise, Unhappy For Both Sides, If We Don't Learn How To Unhappily Coexist And Contain Our Burned Sense Of Injustice - If We Don't Learn How To Do That, We End Up In A Doomed State.

On My Parents Scale Of Values, The More Western Something Was, The More Cultured It Was Considered.

Words Create Conceptions And Self-conceptions And Ultimately Nations. They Can Start And Stop Wars. They Can Would And Heal. Choosing Words Carefully Is A Moral Responsibility.