Dissing Information
The New York Times just published a very personal essay I wrote. After seeing a video from Gaza of Dr. Ali Alhaj Salem, standing over incubators without electricity, without formula, without breast milk, I’ve thought a lot about NICUs, how they differ, and how they reflect on humanity. Fourteen years ago, my son was born … Continue reading A Tale of Two NICUs @ New York Times & Haaretz
I just published a piece I’ve been struggling to write for months:Unlearning Helplessness: Violence and the Collapse of Political Imagination It comes from a place of deep frustration—with the violence, with the paralysis, with how easy it’s become to accept the unacceptable. We’re stuck in survival mode. Fight, flight, freeze. Again and again. This isn’t … Continue reading Stuck Between Fight, Flight, and Freeze
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it. This is our darkest hour, for me, for my children and for my loved ones. We, Israelis and Palestinians who believe in a shared equal society are grieving, we are violently attacked by the warmongers on both sides, … Continue reading Your Empathy is Killing Us
This video is taken from a public debate between Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Dr. Israel Eldad and Dr. Menachem Brinker in 1980.
In the 50:40 minute an Israeli farmer asking what should he tell the Ismaili (apparently referring to the Biblical term used in the debate by members from the right portraying the Palestinians as the arch-enemies of the Jews in Biblical Israel/Palestine friend), who works in his farm and asks him:
“This land that you’re working, I sat in just 30 years ago… In a friendly manner he says that… How can you explain the fact you are working it now? And sometimes, with my labor… You hire me and my friends, to work for you on the land that belongs to me.”
The Israeli farmer continues…
“What will I explain to that Arab, which I want to live with in peace, that I want to reach the day in which he will think of me as a friend and will not think bad thoughts about me.”
