In fact, the rest of us will applaud you for not sending home more plastic crap that we will have to throw away.

Knowing Judy, I think it’s just that she has been at Stanford since before there was email and she just picked judy@stanford like we all picked our AOL screen names not thinking it would follow us forever.

On the IPE side, I think we are more robust but also IPE and CPE have become more and more overlapping as more of the world globalized.

I’m so so sorrry.

Me too!!! Thanks!

New Haven pizza for life!!

You might say, where will these people go? That is a tough question. In a just world, maybe Britain (Sykes) and France (Picot) should take them in as reparations for what they did. But more likely, maybe we could bribe Turkey or Tunisia to take them.

You might say, well since these people hate Hamas, shouldn't we have them stay and fight against Hamas. Well, that would be great in theory but Hamas has all the weapons and the power, so these folks are basically hostages.

You might be worried that the evacuees are Hamas supporters. Well, they probably aren't. I've interviewed people from all sorts of forced displacement contexts and they almost always hate the govt that made them leave. Even if they previously supported the regime, the crisis changes that.

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