Hello?

I have not blogged for a while because, to be perfectly honest, politics has been too depressing to write about. I hope to fix that: My new resolution is to blog every other Monday, starting with this Monday - let's see if I can stick to my resolution.

My feelings about politics in America are complicated. My feelings about politics in Israel can be summed up by this op-ed in haaretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/how-peace-vanished-from-israeli-discourse-1.400274

My fears can be summed up in this paragraph, lifted from the article: "If there is no peace, no dream and not even negotiations, something else will take their place. If the Palestinians' faint hope of freedom is doomed, they will be forced again to take another path. What else can they do? Wait around doing nothing for an entire generation? Sit idly by for two generations? Of course not. This vacuum will be filled by another circle of bloodshed, more horrible than the previous ones. The first uprising was the stone-and-knife intifada, the second was the suicide bombers' intifada. The third is likely to be even more violent."