Thank you for this detailed response, Jody. I'm going to go and read the piece you are discussing now. I would love to hear the talk by this scholar too.

I'm also very encouraged to see the rising fury at Bibi right now, and I hope to goodness it forces an election and gets him out. It's been especially refreshing to see the solidarity among the Israeli people - both Jews and Arabs - after the society was becoming so fractured. And in unifying, they are also doing so over the future of Israel and pushing back against the extremist government.

Honestly, Jody, I have read so many different (well-informed and considered) perspectives on this conflict, and I know that the only ones who speak with any genuine care for a peaceful future are the ones who have realised that pointing fingers will never make that happen. But the rest of the world is failing to catch on.