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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel. Ian Lustick associationdefendendpoint Change image and share on social
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed. Ian Lustick biologicalbreakchemical share on social
The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis. Ian Lustick accomplishauthoritybank share on social
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent businessconnectdeal share on social
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish. Rebecca Solnit airatmospherebig share on social
I have always had confidence in my own ability. Robert Preston abilityconfidence Change image and share on social
