Further to the post I put up on Friday... David Remnick situates the Obama inauguration against the background of what is happening in Gaza, and concludes:
[A]s Obama told his listeners at AIPAC last June, there remains the Talmudic imperative of tikkun olam, "the obligation to repair the world." In four years, or eight, he may well have won no Nobel medal, made no final repair. But the obligation of constant engagement is deep; the cost of negligence is paid in blood. And, what is more, history has proved that the seemingly impossible can be achieved: the Irish and the English have all but resolved a conflict that began in the days of Oliver Cromwell, and on January 20th an African-American President will cross the color line and move into the White House - a house that slaves helped build.
The rest is here. (Thanks: SC.)
