“The place where French postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements, they can make contributions. And a lot of them are drawn away from this: antropologists, sociologists and others. They are drawn away in these arcane, and in my view, mostly meaningless discourses and … More Quote of the Day

“You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.” Sign on a placard held by an old man in Gaza

“Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.” ― Mel Brooks

So would you say that, during your lifetime, humanity has progressed in the construction of a somewhat more just society? “There have been enormous changes. Just look here at MIT. Take a walk down the hall and take a look at the nature of the student body: it’s about half women, a third minorities, informally … More Quote of the Day

“There can be no moral equivalence between the violence of a powerful occupier and the violence of its powerless victim.”–Henry Siegman http://www.thenation.com/article/violence-moral-equivalence-and-the-end-of-a-two-state-solution-in-israel-palestine/

“Few are guilty, but all are responsible.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets

“Israel has, in effect, knowingly moved further toward a full-fledged apartheid system. Those who don’t like the word can suggest another one for what I see each week in the territories and more and more inside the Green Line.”—David Shulman  “Israel: The Stark Truth” http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/mar/21/israel-elections-ugly-truth/

“Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

“The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic.” ― Stephen Fry