A just settlement

The current crisis in the Middle East won’t be the last if this moment doesn’t become a springboard to a just settlement of the long standing desire and right of the Palestinians to their own viable state and homeland. For too long justice has been denied to them. And as long as that is the state of affairs, conflict, violence, and war will be reoccurring.

Even the many supporters of Israel here, I suspect, are reaching a similar conclusion. Will it be a complicated process? For sure. But is it absolutely necessary? Yes!

Was it a blunder

Unless President Biden secured an agreement from Netanyahu to call off the invasion of Gaza, his high stakes trip to Israel will turn into a diplomatic and political blunder.

Ceasefire

Either end the cycle of violence now — and the ball is in Netanyahu’s court — or it could easily spread and engulf more people and states in the Middle East and beyond..

MLK

In moments like the one we’re passing through I find it helpful to ask myself: What would King say and do?

Strange and reactionary places

Just as the people of Israel shouldn’t be conflated with Netanyahu and his government, the people of Gaza shouldn’t be conflated with Hamas. Without making such a separation, one can end up in strange and reactionary places politically. Haven’t we seen evidence of this analytical failure — plenty of it in fact — and its consequences over the past week or so?

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