From ‘Vision for Peace’ to ‘normalisation’ – 2020 has become the year of forgetting

 My latest blog is published at Patheos

Some ironic reflections on Trump's peace plan, this week's Abraham Accords, and the Jewish New Year which begins tonight.


Here's an extract:

"Memories are short. But when did the world start forgetting? Or perhaps everything that was once strange and abnormal is now normal and unremarkable. Thanks to Covid-19, we’re all learning to live in a ‘new normal’. And now there is the new normal for Israel/Palestine too. And we call it ‘normalisation’.
In both cases things are not what they used to be, and may never go back to how they were."

Read the full post here.


Shanah Tovah to my Jewish freinds and readers