Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Guardian
"I am walking barefoot on broken glass and eggshells with this column. I know well enough how it will displease belligerent Zionists and those Muslims who hate Jews. Others too, probably, because these days, there is a preference for crude and simplistic postures à la George Bush. We all have to declare who we are for (absolutely), otherwise we are presumed to be the enemy. Just as the world becomes maddeningly complex, political and religious fundamentalists jostle for conscripts - people who will surrender their brains and their hearts to follow their leaders. Some of us have, thus far, resisted this call of the sirens. We have, in small ways, crossed boundaries, entered the minds of others, and found a deeper understanding of our common bonds and obligations to each other. The challenge of this century is surely how to care about people who lie beyond our fields of concern, people to whom we owe nothing or even people who have long been our foes."
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, "The Middle East Is Destroying My Friendships"
