Memorial days

I have no easy answers to the Israel/Palestine conflict. Nor do I encourage glib moralizing on either side.  But without an honest accounting of history, there is no way of creating an honest path to the future - which of necessity is some sort of compromise between two uncompromising claimants on a tiny strip of land.  At Tony Karon's "Rootless Cosmopolitan", we get some insight from an Israeli into the ethnic cleansing that shaped the creation of the Israeli state. Useful background when one is tempted to rush to judgement against the Palestinians as engaged in an irrational vendetta against perennial victims who happen to be more like "us" than "them."