I share your jealousy and wish I could steal away for extended periods of meditation. Immediately after graduating college--30 years ago--I became a TM teacher. I taught for a few years and, like other TM teachers, was periodically able to ...

I've enjoyed our discussion and agree with you that we'll probably have to wait to see if Israel committed war crimes during their defensive action in Gaza. Much of our debate revolved around your insistence that Hamas has never used human shields, ...

I guess the bottom line is that I don't completely trust B'tselem's data. As I'm sure you're aware, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) recently published (Oct 2008) a scathing critique of B'tselem's annual survey of human rights ...

Shira's remarks are quite clear; she accuses the IDF of "designing missions that they knew would cause death." Her comment is an accusation of war crimes by the IDF, and thereby, reinforces Hamas' war strategy: (1) provoke and ...