Hizbollah
The Middle East telephone game
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Anyone who has played the game of “telephone” knows that our perceptions of what other people say are often distorted and inaccurate. In that game, people form a circle, and one person whispers something into the ear of his neighbor, who whispers what she thought she heard to her neighbor, and the whispers continue until [...]
Cluster bombs, morality and anti-Israel rhetoric: two views
Sunday, October 12th, 2008When discussing Israel, one of the most difficult challenges that confronts passionate moderates like me is criticism that holds the Jewish state to a different moral standard than the one that is used to judge other nation states. By and large, I am suspicious of people who are obsessed with singling out Israel and the [...]
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