... the very phenomenon you won't see and can't see, because it would have such a high social price for figures such as yourself. The biggest Bengelsdorf of all is a colleague, after all.

Weird that you think Philip Roth missed something when he had it right there in the character of Rabbi Bengelsdorf. The preening Jew who clings to powerful institutions while ignoring and excusing their manifest antisemitism, convincing himself he understands what's best for Jews describes...

On direct talks between the US and Hamas and what incentives and disincentives might move it:

On being stuck between the first and second phases of the ceasefire:

Spoke yesterday on the BBC about the strange ceasefire-inside-a-ceasefire of the last eleven days.

Split into parts here in the thread:

Hard to square some of the statements this morning from European foreign ministers with their governments' strident apologias (and generous funding) for UNRWA.

Israeli centrists and many leftists too are continually disappointed by this reality about anti-Israel activism, but it remains as true now as it was in the 1990s. I've address it often in my writing.