I just wanted to say how grateful I am to everyone who helped me to get this site started, and especially, today, to the other bloggers who have been so supportive: Dave Nadig, Laura Rozen, Richard Silverstein, Lawrence of Cyberia, Dennis Fox, Tex, Aron Trauring, and the folks at Rafah Pundits, among others. I really feel as if I have entered an online community of interesting, smart people with progressive views. I’ve learned an awful lot about Israel-Palestine from reading your blogs.
Thanks as well to all the people who do not have their own blogs, but have been kind enough to spend a little time reading mine and commenting.
Thank you to my wife, who has given me the hours I’ve spent on this.
Finally, thanks to my mom. Yup, my mom. She likes to remind me that when I was about seven, I boycotted Thanksgiving because I found out how we had betrayed the Native Americans. “That wasn’t even us!” she declared at the time. Now, she says, when it comes to the Palestinians, it is us. My mom has loved Israel since she was a teenager. She speaks fluent Hebrew. She was a founding member of her synagogue. She’s really smart. The fact that she has come to this conclusion about Israel and the Palestinians means a lot. I would not have had the confidence to do this without her encouragement.
Thank you (from the aforementioned “mom”)
I am blown away, and teary-eyed. And honored to be credited with providing some encouragement and impetus to Andrew for initiating this blog. But it’s Andrew who has put in the hours of research and reading, and it’s Andrew who brings his keen intelligence and finely honed writing to illuminate the issues raised here. Not only am I enormously proud of him for doing this, but I am confident that someday, his daughters will be expressing their gratitude to him for providing them with a model of deeply humanitarian values combined with a commitment to social activism.
Best of Luck
Thanks to Rafah Pundits for linking your site. You’re doing a good job with this blog and we need more voices like yours. Oh, did you hear that Marwan Barghouti isn’t running anymore? He endorsed Abbas, even. : (
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Thanks so much. I really do appreciate your looking at the site. Yours is great too. I did see that about barghouti. I was going to do a post on it if this BABY WOULD GO TO SLEEP so I can work.