Opinion: March 15, 2011 buzz: Exploiting Japan’s tragedy? And a feasible way for conflict resolution between Israel and Palestine?
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Most viewed and shared: Talk about a meltdown
In his Tuesday column, Jonah Goldberg wishes that politicians and activists wouldn’t use Japan’s nuclear plant crisis to bolster their own policy agendas.
‘A crisis,’ Rahm Emanuel famously declared in the early days of the Obama administration, ‘is a terrible thing to waste.’That this axiom didn’t generate more controversy always struck me as bizarre. I mean, shouldn’t it be ‘a crisis is a terrible thing to exploit’?
Most commented: A fatal Israeli-Palestinian flaw
The board’s editorial about the ‘self-destructive tit-for-tat mentality’ that continues the cycle of conflict between Israel and Palestine has received a lot of responses. Here’s one from ‘Archibald’ who wishes more people would recognize our ‘common humanity’ as a way to move toward peace.
For some, Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims, and posters here, what I will suggest will be impossible: To recognize our common humanity. If you grieve and demand revenge for the murdered children of Itamar but do not grieve the murdered children of Sabra and Chatila Massacres or vice-versa, then you are part of the cycle of violence. The reason that recognizing our common humanity should be evident, but I will elucidate the point: Killing a person requires that one person believes that the other person is less than human and thus deserves death. It is harder for one person to kill another person. Recognizing our common humanity will not resolve all the problems, but Palestinians recognizing Israeli security needs while Israelis merely recognizing the Palestinian people right to exist would be small steps toward a just peace.
--Alexandra Le Tellier
