I really enjoyed this piece
by Israel Harel in Haaretz on the President’s Conference “Facing Tomorrow” in Jerusalem this week:
We will of course continue to address the Iranian bomb, terror, the Goldstone Commission report and other global problems. But we must give them a proportionate, sane amount of attention, and we must not invest most of our national energies in them. If our decision makers are guided by our real needs, rather than those dictated by the headlines, even issues insoluble thus far may come closer to a solution. [read the whole thing]
