Time to dissect the Israel apartheid accusation

Feb 22, 2020 | Ethics, Politics

  Lots of talk about apartheid, especially in Israel. What is apartheid? Where do we find it in Israel? Apartheid is another word for  segregation. Apartheid was practiced in South Africa. Segregation, in America, was the practice of requiring separate housing,...

The Palestinian Princess and the Pea

Feb 16, 2020 | Politics

    There was a Palestinian Princess who had such trouble sleeping. No matter which way she turned in her bed there was something hurting her back. One night she had a dream. “One hot day, I was very tired after a hard day… and suddenly I saw...

Trudeau aka Mr. Dithers, leads Canada into tribal devolution

Feb 12, 2020 | Politics

      Justin Trudeau, the 2020 chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, called for cooperation among international partners and governments to create economic opportunity and prosperity that is broadly shared, “…as a way not just of...

George Steiner and Hans Christian Andersen meet Transgender

Feb 9, 2020 | Ethics

  18th-Century French essayist Joseph Joubert wrote “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”   George Steiner, a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator died...