Chalk this post up to Saturday being Yom Kippur. Or to my having spent last Saturday evening at a Sufi-style zikr (religious dance) at a local Friends' meeting house. Or to a certain nervousness over the future of the latest Gaza ceasefire. For whatever reason, I was moved to pull down from my … [Read more...]
A Gaza Story
Again there's news out of Gaza. I wish there weren't. Practically everything out of Gaza that's newsworthy is bad news. I don't have any wisdom to offer on the current situation. I can't say what the Israelis are doing wrong, what they might be doing better; given their situation, attacking … [Read more...]