The clarification in parentheses should suggest that this piece is not about the supernatural being that many get so excited about. No, this is about a song I really like: God Part II by U2. (more…)
February 25, 2006
February 12, 2006
A land with two peoples
It is often stated that a two-state solution is the only way to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel, a Jewish state, living next to a Muslim majority Arab republic called Palestine, with the border running approximately along the line of the 1949 cease-fire line — that is, what was Israel’s border before the Six Day War of 1967 — with shared sovereignty over Jerusalem, and some solution to the Palestinian refugee problem that doesn’t dilute Israel’s Jewishness: this is the essential idea. (more…)