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Daniel Gordis © Daniel Gordis is Director of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows, and the author, most recently, of If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State (Crown). His website is www.danielgordis.org, and his email is
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By Daniel Gordis
February 4, 2005
Micha and I were doing some of his Talmud homework together last night, when he needed a break. So I suggested that we watch the news. We flipped on CNN, which Micha thought was pretty boring. Almost immediately, though, CNN got to a story about Israel preparing to let the PA take over security in five Palestinian cities. Suddenly, he was all ears.
"What did she say Israel is going to do?," he wanted to know. I explained. "Why would we do that?" he asked.
"So we can have peace," I told him, suddenly struck by how ridiculous that must seem to an eleven year old kid who probably can't remember not being at war.
"What, we give them the land and then we just trust them not to start attacking us again?" Well, yeah, basically, I told him. I knew that that sounded pretty dumb, and I was struggling to figure out something more encouraging to say, when I realized that I didn't quite know how to do that. I was suddenly really sorry that we'd taken a break from Talmud.
"Well, if we give them the land and then they start firing rockets again or sending suicide bombers, do we get our land back?"
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