Israeli-Palestinian relations have always been erratic, at the very least. Trying to resolve them is like defusing a bomb: in the end, this may prevent it from detonating, but all the while a hundred other units of dynamite are going off, one by one. In other words, there is no one central way of resolving Israeli-Palestinian tensions, no one bomb [...]
On Friday in the city of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke before reporters. “We need to have full membership at the U.N.,” he began, the reporters taking it in. “We need a state, a seat at the United Nations.” While it was not necessarily misguided for President Abbas to try to apply for U.N. membership, his way of going [...]
En route to a mid morning brunch at Metropolitan Bakery, I passed a group of people dancing in matching red outfits with picket signs. Although I was too far away to hear what they were singing, I knew the tune very distinctively – Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” As I got closer, the lyrics went something like “Stop fighting stop fighting we [...]
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