I had wanted to write only theology and spirituality. Raw politics always presents added complexities. It is too often the practice of power in the setting of prejudice. But in the West all politics takes place within a framework of ethics. We are not yet suffering totalitarianism, though through self-indulgence and laziness, we may yet soon be.
The events in Gaza and Israel have, however, made it impossible to write about only theory and history. The risk of appearing partisan has to be faced. In the present circumstances public discourse takes the form of appearing to be fixated on the question of which nations’ dead babies one is more outraged by.
