On Medium: Confronting an Islamist Diatribe Against Modernity

Read on about how despite the flaws of modern progress in America and Israel, the Islamist invitation to return to medieval-style traditions should be unwelcome.

On Medium: The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel

Here's an article about Jewish fundamentalism, the fragility of liberalism, and the liberal’s burden of distinguishing Israel from its Islamist neighbours.

On Medium: Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations

Here's an article about the strangeness of regulating war with laws, the function of the United Nations, and the UN’s call for a truce in Israel’s war with Hamas.

On Medium: Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?

Read on about the brutality of war in the tribal Middle East, and whether Israel is effectively punishing all Palestinians in Gaza for Hamas's terrorism.

On Medium: Is Israel David or Goliath in the Middle East?

Here's an article about the biblical David and Goliath metaphor, and how we grasp for cognitive filters to overcompensate for paradoxical ambiguity in the Middle East.