Monday: Hili dialogue

September 22, 2025 • 6:45 am

There will be a truncated Hili dialogue today as I’m heading to Boston and Cambridge. I will do my best to post stuff when I’m gone (about a week or so).

It is the first day of fall! The autumn equinox takes place at 1:19 p.m. Chicago time. Beware of pumpkin lattes!

Welcome to Monday, September 22, 2025, and as you read this i’ll be in the air. I’ll be back in a week if my planes don’t crash. If it does, it’s been nice knowing you. It’s World Rhino Day, and here’s a photo of a rhino I took in Manyeleti Nature Reserve in South Africa in August of last year. Note that the horns have been removed to deter poachers:  Note as well the oxpecker birds that have a mutualism with the rhinos (the birds get a meal, the mammal gets rid of insect parasites).

It’s also Hobbit Day (the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins), National Centenarian’s Day (misplaced apostrophe, but note that there are about 101,000 centenarians in America), National White Chocolate Day, National Ice Cream Cone Day (there was a U.S. patent on cones on this day in 1903), and National Elephant Appreciation Day.  Again, here’s an elephant photo I took in Manyeleti:

Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the September 4 Wikipedia page.

Da Nooz:

*More politically-based proceedings from Trump: the Orange Man has demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi step up her prosecutions of people who have opposed him. It came after a U.S. attorney resigned rather than lay charges against two of Trump’s enemies.

President Donald Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi move swiftly to prosecute several political opponents in a series of extraordinary social media posts Saturday, a breakdown of traditional fire walls that have existed between the White House and Justice Department on prosecutorial discretion.

He urged the prosecutions of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), former FBI director James B. Comey and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California), claiming all three were “guilty as hell” and that his supporters were noting “nothing has been done.” Comey and James were both investigated but ultimately not charged by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia this year. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

“We cant delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Trump said in one message to Bondi. “They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”

Trump’s messages were one of his most overt attempts to date to override the traditional restraints on the president’s involvement in law enforcement investigations after months of calling for criminal charges against those he perceives as political enemies. It comes a day after he called for the ouster of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik S. Siebert, who resigned amid pressure over his decision not to seek indictments against Comey and James.

In one of the posts, Trump announced he intends to nominate Lindsey Halligan, a White House adviser and his former personal lawyer, to be the U.S. attorney in that high-profile office based in Alexandria.

Halligan, a former Florida insurance lawyer who joined Trump’s personal legal team in 2022 and was at his Mar-a-Lago compound when the FBI executed a search warrant in its classified records investigation, is the White House adviser tasked with removing “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. She has no prior experience as a prosecutor.

“She will be Fair, Smart, and will provide desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!” Trump said on Truth Social.

Trump’s beefs? From Politico:

Trump has long accused Comey, Schiff and James, without evidence, of criminal conduct. Trump fired Comey as FBI director in 2017 amid frustrations over the investigation of his campaign’s contacts with Russia. Schiff led Trump’s first impeachment trial over his decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine over a demand that the Ukrainian government investigate his political rivals. And Trump has railed against James for her sprawling lawsuit against his business empire that led to a massive civil judgment against him.

Trump is blurring the boundaries between the executive and judicial branches, using the latter to punish those that irritate him.  Today we have a one-man Saturday Night massacre, but there will be others.  I’ve been trying to wait three years without blowing an artery, but one unconscionable act follows another.

*As a reward to Hamas for killing Jews, and a punishment to Israel for responding to Hamas’s attack, Keir Starmer, the blockheaded (Labour) PM of the UK, announced Sunday the recognition by the UK of a Palestinian state. Starmer’s rationale, which everybody know is totally bogus, is that giving Palestine their own state will bring about comity between Israel and Palestine. Yeah: that’s why Palestinians have rejected a state over and over again since 1947. Oh, and Canada and Australia joined the off-key chorus, too:

From the WaPo:

The British government said Sunday it was formally recognizing a state of Palestine, reversing decades of unwillingness to accept Palestinians as a sovereign nation until their conflict with Israel was permanently settled and breaking sharply with Washington only days after President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, facing growing pressure from the British public and his own Labour Party to take a tougher stand against Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza, said his government would join France and Canada in recognizing Palestine at the United Nations this week. The three, the first members of the G-7 major economies to take such a step, are some of the biggest traditional Israel supporters, and U.S. allies, to recognize a Palestinian state

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also announced their countries’ official recognition of a Palestine state Sunday.

The growing list of nations recognizing Palestine, which is expected also to include Australia after the U.N. gathering, reflect how the bloodshed and upheaval following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel have shaken up long-static diplomatic positions.

Britain’s shift has special resonance given its controversial history governing what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories in the early 20th century under a mandate from the League of Nations — after making what critics say were unclear and contradictory promises to Arabs and Jews in the region.

The UK is making a mistake, but there’s not really a danger of a two-state solution in the near future. The mistake is taking a position that is not only ineffective but immoral.  Look: here is a man who is talking pure bunk, and he surely knows it:

Einat Wilf is one of the more eloquent defenders of Israel on the Internet; YouTube identifies her as “a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party.” She’s also a prolific writer with seven books under her belt. For what it’s worth, she also has a Ph.D. in political science from The University of Cambridge.

In the 36-minute video below, Wilf discusses the proposed two-state solution, which she says will fail because there is an “irreconcilable conflict” between the Jews and the Palestinians. The Jews want their sovereign state, and the Palestinians want it gone.  And by “Palestinians,” she means, “nearly all Palestinians,” as she finds (and polls show) only a handful of Palestinians who still want a Jewish state to exist. She adds that although the world treats Palestine as a “charity basket case,” pouring billions into the territory, Palestinians are in fact savvy adults with the ability to plan something like October 7 and turn Gaza into a sophisticated Hamas instrument riddled with underground tunnels. And yet the money keeps pouring in, as well as the sympathy from misguided gits like Kier Starmer. Palestine, says Wilf, deserve to be treated with respect and taken at their word: a murderous and Jew-hating word.

But I digress. Listen for yourself. You should because people like Greta Thunberg and her cronies, bent on ignoring their ideological opponents, will stop their ears and shout “na-na-na-na-na!”.

*And, buttressing Wilf’s pessimism, there’s a new WSJ article called, “The world sees hope for a two-state solution. Israelis and Palestinians see none.”

The expected recognition of a Palestine state by France, the U.K. and several other Western countries is part of an effort to breathe life into a dying solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two states living side by side.

On the ground, the two-state solution is more remote than ever. Trust between the two peoples of the Holy Land is plumbing historic depths, as Israel’s military campaign in Gaza—by far the deadliest round of war in the century-old conflict—escalates once more.

Polls, which in the 1990s and early 2000s consistently indicated majority support on both sides for two states, have in recent years shown that only a minority of Israelis and Palestinians support the idea—or think it is feasible in practice.

The expected recognition of a Palestine state by France, the U.K. and several other Western countries is part of an effort to breathe life into a dying solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two states living side by side.

On the ground, the two-state solution is more remote than ever. Trust between the two peoples of the Holy Land is plumbing historic depths, as Israel’s military campaign in Gaza—by far the deadliest round of war in the century-old conflict—escalates once more.

Polls, which in the 1990s and early 2000s consistently indicated majority support on both sides for two states, have in recent years shown that only a minority of Israelis and Palestinians support the idea—or think it is feasible in practice.

Ain’t gonna happen.

*You can get your covid shots now, after the CDC threatened to limit them only to specific groups. But they backed off in a meeting, and now you can get one if you so desire (I’m waiting a bit, as I already have over half a dozen). And most will be covered by insurance—with the possible exception for some whose “coverage” is from United Healthcare.

Drugstores are ready to deliver updated COVID-19 vaccines this fall and insurers plan to pay for them, even though the shots no longer come recommended by an important government committee.

On Friday, vaccine advisers picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to specifically recommend the shots but said people could make individual decisions on whether to get them.

The recommendations from the advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention require sign-off by the agency’s director, but they are almost always adopted.

Those recommendations normally trigger several layers of insurance coverage and allow drugstores in many states to deliver the shots. But insurers and government officials have said coverage will continue, and several states have allowed for vaccine access through pharmacies, the most common place to get shots.

Will insurers cover these shots?

The VFC program normally automatically covers any vaccines recommended by the CDC committee.

The trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans said earlier this week that its members will continue to cover the shots at no cost to patients through 2026.

That group includes every major insurer except UnitedHealthcare. And that insurer has said it will continue covering the vaccine at no cost for its standard commercial coverage, which includes plans offered for individuals and through small businesses.

Should you get one? Ask your doctor, of course, as I did. But also don’t forget that if you’re going to get a flu shot, now is the time. My doctor told me to get mine between mid- and late September, and that seems to be what Internet Sites of Expertise say. And if you’re a geezer, don’t forget your other shots, like pneumonia and (if you haven’t had it) shingles. Again, ask your doctor.

*Good Ceiling Cat!  Now, due to Trump’s tariffs, they’re contemplating making Swiss Army knives in America instead of Switzerland. And I bet Trump will insist on them being called “GreatAmerican War Knives.”

The United States has long been Victorinox’s most important market, Mr. Elsener said, raising his voice above the din of machinery. But after President Trump blindsided Switzerland last month by imposing a 39 percent import tariff, the highest for any Western country, the treasured ties were thrown into question.

“It was a shock,” said Mr. Elsener, who, like many Swiss executives, had anticipated an outcome more like that of the European Union, which negotiated a 15 percent tariff, or Britain, which was slapped with a basic tariff of 10 percent. “No one had expected such a drastic step,” he added.

After decades of easy entry into America, a wall has gone up for the Swiss. If the tariffs stay in place, Victorinox will face a $13 million U.S. import tax bill next year. After keeping U.S. prices steady this year, Mr. Elsener may have to raise them. The company’s professional kitchen knives suddenly cost more than those of European competitors. And U.S. customs paperwork, once simple, is now a Kafkaesque ordeal.

“The new tariffs are hitting Switzerland’s export-oriented economy hard,” said Jan Atteslander, a director at EconomieSuisse, the lobbying group for Swiss businesses. “A swift agreement on reducing tariffs is essential.”

. . . But like the Swiss Army knives he makes, Mr. Elsener, who is fourth generation in his family to run the company, is staying pragmatic. “I’m hoping for the best, but I’m also prepared for the worst,” he said in an interview at Victorinox’s headquarters in Ibach-Schwyz. It is a bucolic industrial region in central Switzerland ringed by pine-covered mountains and dotted with timbered houses, colorful church spires and the occasional herd of cows.

. . . Mr. Elsener said he was considering shifting some final stages of production, including the cleaning and packaging of professional knives, to the United States, a move that would save $500,000 in tariff charges.

But for him, the Swiss Army knife itself could never be made in America. “It’s a Swiss icon that is inseparably tied to the promise of “Made in Switzerland” quality,” Mr. Elsener said. “Moving its production abroad would undermine the very essence of our brand.”

Well, it looks like the headline (“If the Swiss Army knife is made in America, is it still Swiss?”) was a bit precipitous; at best they’ll be packaged here. I’ve had many over the years, and still have the two smallest ones with two blades and small scissors, but I also have the biggest one, a fat monster with a gazillion blades, including a pen and a magnifying glass. None have ever broken (though I’ve lost one or two), and they are terrific products. They had better not make them here!

*Finally, Ghost, the dying giant Pacific Octopus, wasting away to nothing as she guards a batch of unfertilized eggs, is still alive. She’s been given her own private tank so she can cross the Rainbow Bridge without tons of visitors gawking at her. And the Aquarium of the Pacific has already acquired a replacement octopus for Ghost’s death, expected in one to three months. The funeral meats are going to coldly furnish forth the aquarium tables.  They should allow a decent period of mourning before they unveil the new octopus. But they like those dollars. . .

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Andrzej disses my pal:

Hili: Things were worse in the past.
Andrzej: Steven Pinker claims that, and he’s right in some respects, but how is that helpful to anyone?

In Polish:

Hili: Dawniej było gorzej.
Ja: Tak twierdzi Steven Pinker i pod pewnymi względami ma rację, ale komu to pomaga?

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From Stacy:

From Joyce:

From Cat Memes:

Masih is back, and posting brave (and now dead) Iranian women who protested against their theocracy:

From Luana, a schnorrer who wants a passport:

A cat from Cate:

From Frau Katze, a baby wolf learning to howl:

From Malcolm; a monkey risks getting stung to get some tasty wasp larvae:

One I reposted from The Auschwitz Memorial:

This Dutch Jewish boy was gassed as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was three years old.

— Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T08:22:47.558Z

 

Two from Doctor Cobb. I can only imagine where James Joyce’s hand was (I’ve read his letters):

— Rob Palk (@robpalk.bsky.social) 2025-09-20T21:49:55.732Z

. . . and some fantastic fossils:

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

— Emily Mitchell (@egmitchell.bsky.social) 2025-09-20T23:01:22.425Z

26 thoughts on “Monday: Hili dialogue”

  1. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. -Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)

  2. In This 36-minute video, we see one of the clearest presentations yet of how Einat, a labor member moved over a couple of decades from thinking achieving peace with the palistinians was about just getting the equation right on dividing up the land to “no”, it is about the jews having zero land period: ie no jews. I highly recommend watching it.

    Safe travels jerry. Hi to Tim and Betsy!

  4. I’m also sceptical of the viability of a two-state solution, especially because the Palestinians have repeatedly rejected several proposals. At the same time, any such plan should also remove the Israeli settlements from the West Bank and have Jerusalem somehow part of both.

  5. I’m well familiar with Dr. Wilf, she reads my column. 🙂 And yes, she is an excellent voice for Israel.

    In other news there I saw (in passing) Hamas are or have killed/ing the hostages.
    This is a game changer. Now, as Kissinger once said about 1973 “The wider war commences….”

    I get a little tired of western peaceniks holding up anti-Hamas protesters in Gaza as “a peace movement”. Those protesters are just upset Hamas lost. The game remains the same – annihilation of Israel. They say this all the time. Hamas is STILL popular, the rest follow Islamic Jihad who, as their name suggests, are even more psychopathic. We can’t view these people as if they’re, say, Texans or Parisians in keffiyehs. They value different things, goals we’d abhor are their fuel.

    Wolf puppers learning to howl is adorable. My Aussie shepherd “Aussie” didn’t find his “voice” until he was over a year old. Then he was hard to shut up. Now, at 15, he’s older than Joe Biden and crankier than a boomer on a bad day with kids on his lawn. So I push him around town in our (newly acquired) pet stroller.

    So that’s that, then.

    D.A.
    NYC https://x.com/DavidandersonJd

    1. I’m sorry your doggy is getting so old, but happy he’s lived so long. I was a “big dog snob” (don’t tell my neighbors cause they all have Chihuahuas and yorkies and I can’t stand those yappy little ankle-biters) and 14 was the longest any of mine made it. 15 is good and it’s sweet that you’re pushing him around in a stroller. It kinda brings a tear to my eye. My 80# Redbone Coonhound x Ridgeback just died this summer. That sweet girl only made it to 12. I think it’s because whoever had her before I adopted her (at 8 years of age) had been breeding the hell out of her. Stupid stupid people. Anyway, hope you Aussie keeps on keepin’ on for ya.

  6. Regarding Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian state, it appears that the British public has mixed views on the topic, with a large majority being opposed to the recognition of a Palestinian state without conditions. Of course without conditions is an important caveat, in that even Starmer wants to see Hamas out of power—a condition. Anyway, this report adds some nuance regarding the level of popular support in Britain for a Palestinian state: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415244.

    Oh, and I got my flu and COVID-19 shots last week. No big deal at the local pharmacy (if you’re over 65). I got my Shingrix shots a few years ago. I still had a very mild case of shingles—long after getting the shots. I attribute the mildness of my case, a postage stamp-sized rash, to getting vaccinated. It could have been worse.

    1. Norm – a friend of mine (my age, mid 50s, so a whippersnapper)… said the shingella vaccine was actually pretty painful. Did you find that?
      I’ll get it – I’m a vaccine superfan in all contexts, just want to schedule it in case it hurts. (delay it probably!)
      D.A.
      NYC

      1. For what it’s worth, I got the pair of shingles shots earlier this year. No noticeable effects from the first one and about 24 hours of moderate discomfort from the second one. Sort of as if all your normal little aches and pains had the volume knob bumped up a bit. But no doubt reactions are widely varied.

  7. I have to admit to confusion over the rational for recognising a palestinian state right now. Those who support doing this suggest that it will help to end the current war and suffering of the Gazans. I don’t see how that will happen. This will prolong the war as hamas will see that they have no reasons to negotiate anything. A very short sighted decision by my PM.

    1. You know what I think? I think France, Britain, Canada, et al. are doing it because they are afraid. Afraid of the violence that will come from Islamists within if they don’t. They know that if they don’t do something that shows they are on Hamas’ side, the cafe bombings, mass shootings, stabbings, and vehicles-as-weapons attacks will commence.

      1. I think you are dead right about Canada, anyway. Less apocalyptically there are a bunch of urban and suburban federal ridings where Islamists are swing voters in first-past-the-post. If they desert the Liberal Party, as their pressure groups threatened to do in the early months of the current war, and revitalize the moribund New Democratic/Green Party coalition of communists and antisemites, the Conservative Party might win enough of those three-way seats to form a Government. It’s still fear, because if the Islamists don’t get a Government to do their bidding, then politics will be carried on by other means.

        Politics in Canada is for pretty low stakes. No one cares about us anymore on the world stage. So the grubby business of gaining electoral majorities to manage our decline and distribute the patronage spoils is sufficient to make our MPs do almost anything. Pretty soon the research labs will be using them for psychology experiments: as the old joke goes, there are some things you just can’t get a rat to do.

    2. You know, I’ve thought the reason was for virtue signaling. But the comments here make me realize that is far too simplistic.
      Now if only countries who recognize Palestine will commit themselves to rolling out a multinational peace-keeping force that will enter the territory. Run the place, educate the kids, and put a stop to the traffic of weapons and laundered money!
      Of course they won’t.

    3. Our PM desperately wants the votes of Muslims (his government is the least popular government on record, according to polls), and he is very afraid that British Muslims could found and start voting for a new Muslim party, rather than Labour. His “recognising” a Palestinian state has very little to do with whether it is a sensible policy.

      1. Same here in Oz. The Labor PM depends on imported Muslim votes to stay in power. Perhaps that’s why successive Labor governments imported so many Muslim “refugees” over the past decades. If that was the reason, it worked.

        Fear, of course, is another factor. Lots of marches/riots here calling for the death of Israel and of Australia itself as a so-called “settler colonial entity” that has no justification to exist. Muslim immigrants marching with leftie useful fools = decline and fall of the West according to some commentators.

  8. The recognition of Palestine is an empty gesture without recognizing specific borders at least. The recognition that there is/should be a Palestinian state isn’t the bad move by the pro-Palestinian nations – the bad move is the reasoning. Gaza is a righteous war and as I have repeatedly said, there is nothing that prevents Israel from declaring formal war and continuing with business as usual.

    A good reason for recognition would be to stop the creeping or Israeli settlements that displace the Palestinians that didn’t invade their country en masse. It’s against international law, Israel knows it, but the hard right in Israel pushes it regardless and the country goes along with it.

    So should borders of a state of Palestine be recognized, it should be just the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Keep Gaza stateless until Hamas is gone and Gazans show an interest in co-existence.
    So I don’t think a recognition at this point is inherently bad, France/UK/Canada just botched the important details.

  9. “A good reason for recognition would be to stop the creeping or Israeli settlements that displace the Palestinians that didn’t invade their country en masse. It’s against international law, Israel knows it, but the hard right in Israel pushes it regardless and the country goes along with it.”

    Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria don’t displace anybody. The territory is very sparsely settled.

    I am unaware of any international law that forbids Jews from living in J/S or voluntarily moving there. If you are aware of any such international law, please let me know, as it would be as curious as it would be racist. And I would caution you not to confuse UN resolutions or opinions on the issue – of which there are plenty – for actual international law, because the UN can not make international law. Its Charter does not grant it any legislative powers.

    Its Charter does, on the other hand, obligate it under Article 80 to fulfill the previous obligations of the League of Nations which are still-valid international law. And those obligations specifically call for the settlement of Jews within the 1948 borders of Israel, and those borders include J/S. So does the Treaty of San Remo, which is also still-valid international law.

    Support for Jewish settlement of J/S goes well beyond just the “hard right”. Only 25% of Jewish Israelis support a two-state solution. 47% of Jewish Israelis support settlements including annexation. A Knesset nonbinding motion in July 2025 calling for formal sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley passed with support from 71 of 120 Knesset members.

    1. A good reason for Israel to hold (and settle, because that’s part of holding) Judea and Samaria is that the pre-1967 borders Israel had to live with were indefensible. The 1967 War gave Israel defensible borders, restoring the borders she had at the 1948 Independence. Having part of Jordan (trans-Jordan) as a salient into Israel (not to mention the Golan Heights from which Syrian artillery could fire long distances) just a few miles from Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean was not sustainable, especially since it was Israeli territory originally. Hard for a defending army to drop back to reorganize with the sea at their backs.

      Stewart Alsop, columnist for Newsweek on the magazine’s once-prestigious back page, made this point in the 1970s during the interminable demands that Israel abandon “the West Bank” which she had spilled blood to take back. It’s still valid today. Right of Conquest is a thing: you precipitate a war that you lose, you lose territory. That you happen to be living/squatting in it is completely irrelevant to the victor.

      1. Abba Eban called the pre-1967 borders “Auschwitz Borders” and “suicidal”.

        And now we have Egypt’s leaders drumming hot for war and massing tanks on the Sinai – territory Israel gave back to them for “peace”. (A skeptic might conclude that Arabs can’t be trusted.)

        The Sinai might become the new home for the Gazans. Lots of sand they can pound.

        1. Egypt doesn’t want a hot war – they want the bribes we Americans give them to STFU (to “be quiet and get along”). and more importantly, they can’t afford a war, can’t afford to fight, to loose one (which they would), or lose US support and be discredited.

          Plus…. like most Arab elites… they DESPISE the Pals.
          They also hate Hamas whose Islamism has killed thousands of Egyptians (mainly military but many civilians) in North Sinai Governate over the past decade.
          Lovely people individually often, and I have a dear friend from there (W.B) but the polity, the civilization of “Palestine” is horribly, fatally toxic.

          The idea that W/B (Judea and Samaria) are somehow “illegally occupied” is legal nonsense. The UN is a club for Arab countries and the Islamosphere to beat Jews. That isn’t “law”.

          best
          D.A.
          NYC
          – you can enjoy more of my loudmouth rants at https://x.com/DavidandersonJd

  11. At the risk of “over commenting” today, I am happy to see the 2 photos from Jerry’s trip to South Africa (the rhino and a couple elephants). Of all his trips I’ve been around to witness on WEIT, that was my favorite.
    Also, lots of funny memes today. Appreciated every laugh. And I’m with Andrzej, Pinker’s proclamation that the world is “better today” never made me feel the slightest bit better about the things that I perceive to be worse.

    1. I always put Pinker and his message in my mental time machine and send him back to August 1914 or September 1939. A similar day will come again. But at least we’ll all have good teeth when it arrives.

  12. I just watched Einat Wilf on the NGO Monitor video. Wow! She really gets it right. I’ve never heard the situation framed quite so elementarily. Thank you for this. I’d like to (and intend to) share this with those who stubbornly cling to the 2 state lie as it’s defended and argued for today. Wilf’s description of the conflict is irrefutable. Great post.

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