a proper history

When so much about Israel today seems (to a newly-converting and hence newly-aware person like me) to focus on a piece of real estate the size of New Jersey as the source of all evil in the world, it’s an actual relief to stumble across a proper contemporary history of Israel. It has always seemed Continue reading a proper history

He's up to something

You know he’s up to something. He can’t possibly mean this. I wonder what he said in Arabic right afterwards? Arafat: Israel Has Right to Live in Peace ABC News – 3 hours ago RAMALLAH, West Bank Nov. 12 Yasser Arafat on Wednesday called for an end to three years of violence, saying that Israel has a right Continue reading He's up to something

time passeth

It’s fall, and I’m not ready for it. Party tonight with friends who have a balcony facing the Ohio river in the most desirable possible view, which tonight included fireworks and a river littered with steamboats strung with lights. One bridge at least was clogged with drivers whose only reason to stop was for to Continue reading time passeth