Reality is a powerful solvent.
If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.