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Polling and a ceasefire

The poll supporting a ceasefire, it is said, is only a snapshot of public sentiment and doesn’t capture the complexity of public sentiments and thus its results should be taken with a grain of salt. Even if that is true,…

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Cousin Johnny

I honor my cousin Johnny today – Veterans Day – who after being sent to a staging base in Alabama in 1969 decided that fighting in Vietnam wasn’t his cup of tea and promptly went AWOL. He eventually landed in…

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Antisemitism and Islamophobia

It’s not surprising the current conflict between Israel and Palestinians – Gaza is ground zero of this conflict for now – is generating antisemitism and Islamophobia across the world, including here in the U.S. Both should be challenged.

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Vietnam and Gaza

We lost 60,000 plus Americans in Vietnam over nearly a 10 year period; in Gaza 10,000 plus have died in less than a month. The pause, announced yesterday, will give the people of Gaza a little breathing space, but not…

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Save the village

Yesterday I wrote on fb that the “pause” was a fig leaf at best. I’m afraid I was right. Last night the Washington Post in a harrowing story reported that another hospital was bombed in Gaza. According to the Post,…