How To Cure a Fanatic: The Amos Oz Solution

Good morning. Two new items today.

• The column was entitled “Arabs and Israelis—All Victims of Europe.” It was published in The New York Times on May 19, 1982. It was written by Amos Oz, the great Israeli writer. Pierre looks back at that column, how little has changed since, how much could change if Oz's ideas took hold. See "How to Cure a Fanatic"...
  

• Candide Recommends: The rain of terror continues in lebanon: Links to a Los Angeles Times report on Beirut's reconstructed dream, lost again; a profile of Hezbollah's Hasan Nasrallah; and how the New York Times discovers five years too late that the Bush administration was never about 9/11, but about profit and opportunism for the Executive's sake. The links here...