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Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz is not a "Zealot," but a realist when he says that curtailment of civil rights on the West Bank was unavoidable. That is what military occupation means. It was thrust on Israel in 1967, confirmed in 1973 by another all-out Arab war that nearly...
Israel's democracy is precious to me. That democracy is still vital and strong, though it faces challenges in recent years perhaps greater than other democracies have recently had to face.
Criticism, where genuinely motivated, should be welcomed. But I will not lambast Israel because I don't think it is deserved. Nor does the necessity of its existence as a Jewish state embarass me. The defense of a nation that one admits is imperfect but basically moral should be intelligible...
Solidarity is at once a personal and a universal matter, for it raises the fundamental question of what is the "self" and what is the "other." One of the glories of our era is that we have witnessed the birth of global solidarity; imperfect, struggling, but nonetheless real. We see...
Are we now mature enough and wise enough to accept that the deepest meaning of solidarity requires that we consider ourselves as if we all were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that we are all living with AIDS?