The current Israeli administration keeps trying to defeat Hamas with military action. In trying to do so, it keeps killing far more bystanders than militant members of Hamas. The strategy simply guarantees the eventual killing of hostages and a new supply of militants. A survey of Palestinians shows that most would prefer an alternative to […]

As I watch the horrors of this administration unfold, I am struck by how much of this was predicted but not inevitable. We remember Orwell’s “1984,” and its depiction of a dictatorial society. Then there was Nostradamus and his predictions for our time with plagues (COVID and measles), natural disasters (climate change) and the creation […]