A Letter to the World from Jerusalem, 1969

Forty-plus years later, this letter still stands relevant in today’s political climate (full text is below the video).

by Eliezer ben Yisrael (Stanley Goldfoot)

I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe.

Can statistics replace human sense?

I would like to see these "scientists" being researching under rocket fire... How many rockets shall fall on Zurich to explain to these people the difference between good and evil?

Econometric papers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

by Tyler Cowen on July 24, 2011 at 3:05 am in Current Affairs, Political Science | Permalink

Ending violent international conflicts requires understanding the causal factors that perpetuate them. In the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Israelis and Palestinians each tend to see themselves as victims, engaging in violence only in response to attacks initiated by a fundamentally and implacably violent foe bent on their destruction. Econometric techniques allow us to empirically test the degree to which violence on each side occurs in response to aggression by the other side.