Author: soj

Amongst other things, I noticed that the much-heralded Iraq Study Group’s report recommended direct talks with Palestinians – but only Palestinians who acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. I hear that phrase a...

I’ve been in kind of a funk lately and I’ve hard a hard time understanding why.  With the recent election results, I thought I would feel more elated.  Certainly there was a lot of good things that happened...

When I was a kid, my parents used to pack me off to spend a little time with my grandparents.  It’s hard to believe now but I used to fly unaccompanied even though I was a young child – hard to believe because...

It really is about that ridiculous. There’s some good news today about a man I feel so close to that I almost feel like I know him in real life.  I don’t, but I spent so much time researching his story that I...

You know, the main reason I read blogs is to be better informed about what’s going on in my country and around the world.  Most of the time, that’s exactly what blogs deliver, especially ones as wonderful as...