Seven Realities of Israel/Palestine

The realities of the conflict between Israel and Hamas are discomfiting and do not fit into a neat whole, nor do they fit easily into inherited slogans or moral formulas.

It is hard to face the current realities. There are many uncertainties around what has happened and is happening. Moral certainty is attractive when reality is uncertain. It replaces the harder work of trying to understand what has happened and where we are. Moral certainty is also attractive because it looks like a guide to action. Nothing seems to con…