I Recommend The Art Of Slow Reading.

We Lived Through A Relatively Golden Age Between The End Of World War Ii And Sept. 11, 2001.

When People Have Peace, They Hate It And Long For Excitement, And When They Have Excitement, They Want Peace.

The Battlefield Is First And Foremost Horrible Stenches, Not Sights, Not Sounds, But Stenches. They Don't Travel Well Into Literature.

Israel Is A Fulfillment, And As A Fulfillment, It Is Flawed. Dreams Fulfilled Are Imperfect. And, Israel Is Imperfect, Of Course It Is - A Far Cry From The Monumental Dreams Of The Founding Fathers. One Of The Reasons Is That Their Dreams Were Unrealistic. They Were Bigger Than Life. These Were Messianic Dreams, Dreams About Total Redemption For The Jews, For The World. Such Dreams Do Not Come True, Not In Their Entirety.

Recently With Is And Islamist Fanaticism, It Has Become Easy For The Israeli Government To Simply Push The Palestinian Struggle For Self-determination Into The Same Ranks As These Fundamentalist Movements.