Three Reasons. . . Four Thousand Middle Eastern Women Recently a group of 20 Israeli women set off from northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, planning to walk to Jerusalem. All along the way they were joined by other women and two weeks later, 3,000 strong, they reached the Palestinian city of Jericho where they […]
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Before you read this article, I want you to know that I wrote with some ignorance and what I have said is inaccurate at one point. Because I want to stand by my conclusion and preserve the truth about how I reached it, I have decided to post the piece as I wrote it and […]
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Two incredible wrongs were done, two crimes committed. Two men are in prison, charged with these crimes, but I am confident that not everyone who is guilty will be charged. Aiding and abetting takes many forms. I am speaking of the murder of Khalid Jabara, a 37-year old man, on August 12 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, […]
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The Solution We Are Afraid to Try A relative of mine who had earlier divorced in his wife, created a scandal in our family with his relationship to another woman. There were two horrifying things about the relationship. First they were a man and a woman living together and not married. Second, she was black […]
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Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, whoever he was down deep, whatever his motivation, regardless of his legal right to own an assault weapon, has done more than he could have expected to do when he planned to slaughter a roomful of unsuspecting people. He may not have intended to play into the hands of a reckless […]
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This morning, April 26, I opened the online Beirut Daily Star and looked for items of special interest to me. The one that caught my eye was an opinion piece headlined like this: “A manifesto to end our dysfunctional politics.” I jumped on this article quickly, eager to learn how Lebanon is going to […]
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An answer to the soldier (and 364 others who read my confession): Two weeks ago I posted a blog called: Bombs in Brussels, Drones in the Middle East, the Confessions of a Coward. For three days afterwards my website was visited frequently. A great many readers “liked” the article. Some thanked me on facebook, […]
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Last week representatives of the religions of the world met together in Salt Lake City. To me this event seemed significant and exciting, especially because it was only the sixth like it in the history of the world and was happening at a time when conflict in the Middle East seemed to be fueled by […]
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I happened to be in Burlington, N.C., when a man asked me, “Are those people (the Arabs) just wired differently than we are, so that they like to fight?” Of course, you can guess what I said. They are not. Violence is not an Arab trait. It is a human trait. The history of […]
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On what do you base your hope for Lebanon? At Elon University a student from Lebanon asked me this excellent question. I did not do a great job of answering, though I did say that the Lebanese people are amazingly resilient. They are survivors. They have an uncanny ability to get around a problem without […]
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