The Trump-Witcoff-Kushner-Qatar-Turkey-Egypt peace deal is clearly flawed, but maybe now that the hot Gaza war is (hopefully) ending, peace-makers can seize the moment.
A good read on a tough subject. So what to make of Hamas already breaking the agreement by killing their Gazan rivals? And Israel has not yet taken that bait and called the agreement broken? I have no idea what will happen next, but I can’t see how they will disarm, or even slow down Hamas.
Terrific column...will share widely. Bought and finished your wonderful book.......took me back to working with support groups here for Peace now......you really captured that hopeful time.
Thanks for the news of Rothman....I worked with him a million years ago organizing for Jewish Peace Fellowship!
I don't doubt that Andrea is a good person, and I appreciated the lack of snark in the piece (though there is a lot of condescension, even though most of it is probably unintentional). But it's fundamentally living in the progressive bubble that says our positions are correct and the route to a better future is just to stick with them rather than to recognize the need to engage with folk who disagree with you in ways that include recognizing that you too may have something to learn from them.
Unfortunately that is the path that has let Trump back into power, and it's a recipe for keeping MAGA there. And while it's fine for Coates to play his role as the teller of truths as he sees them, it's political malpractice for anyone who is serious about politics not to recognize that they need to approach things differently.
A good read on a tough subject. So what to make of Hamas already breaking the agreement by killing their Gazan rivals? And Israel has not yet taken that bait and called the agreement broken? I have no idea what will happen next, but I can’t see how they will disarm, or even slow down Hamas.
Terrific column...will share widely. Bought and finished your wonderful book.......took me back to working with support groups here for Peace now......you really captured that hopeful time.
Thanks for the news of Rothman....I worked with him a million years ago organizing for Jewish Peace Fellowship!
Thanks for the info on Marwan Barghouti... I didn't know his importance. Too bad he was not included this week.
Thanks for the link to Jay Rothman Substack.
Meanwhile, for much wiser takes on the Klein/Coates conversation than Andrea Pitzer's, see these two pieces by Harjas Sandhu and Ben Dreyfus:
https://hardlyworking1.substack.com/p/max-weber-destroyed-ezra-klein-and
https://www.calmdownben.com/p/the-left-is-very-mad-at-ezra-klein
I don't doubt that Andrea is a good person, and I appreciated the lack of snark in the piece (though there is a lot of condescension, even though most of it is probably unintentional). But it's fundamentally living in the progressive bubble that says our positions are correct and the route to a better future is just to stick with them rather than to recognize the need to engage with folk who disagree with you in ways that include recognizing that you too may have something to learn from them.
Unfortunately that is the path that has let Trump back into power, and it's a recipe for keeping MAGA there. And while it's fine for Coates to play his role as the teller of truths as he sees them, it's political malpractice for anyone who is serious about politics not to recognize that they need to approach things differently.