History Always Happens To Us

Love Consists In Leaving The Loved One Space To Be Themselves While Providing The Security Within Which That Self May Flourish.

Unlike Memory, Which Confirms And Reinforces Itself, History Contributes To The Disenchantment Of The World.

The East European Small Countries Have A Sense Of Betrayal, Of Having Been Forgotten By Western Leaders.

It Does Irritate Me When I Am Described As A Controversialist And Commentator On Israel.

I Worry That We Have Forgotten That The De-ideologized, De-politicized, Uncontentious Public Space Of The Last 50 Years As Europeans Have Experienced It Is Not The Normal Human Condition. We Shall Be Sorry To Have Abandoned A Little Too Quickly The Institutions That Were Set Up By Our Parents And Grandparents To Protect Themselves Against A Return Of The Bad Old World. Because The Bad Old World Can Still Come Back To Haunt You.