For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

…you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

No one has the luxury of deciding “when” to travel; you wait prepared to travel whenever the border is open, which could be today, tomorrow or next week or three, four months from now.

The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop...