Visting PhD researcher's initial thoughts on the Israel-Palestine conflict
Blog post by Daynn Lissa Morisseau at Times of Israel
“I’m a visiting scholar in the International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University,” I tell her. “I’m doing a PhD in War Studies back home.”
It is December 3rd, 2024—a little over a year after the October 7th attack; and I am in a taxi with a young Israeli woman I’ve only just met.
“In Israel,” she sighs. “After—‘what is your name?’, they ask you what you did in the army. [Talking about war] is like talking about the weather.”
And so, as one does with someone they’ve only just met, we speak of war like it is the weather.
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