Jul 06
There was a sad irony in watching recent events in Iran -- the newest set of news clips of stone-throwing and gunfire in the Middle East. Now, as always, it is violence -- or at least the potential for violence -- that grabs the headlines and focuses our attention, however briefly, on something happening far away. I am familiar with the phenomenon, having been on the ground during Israel's withdrawal of its settlements from Gaza in 2005 to film the documentary Unsettled . Then, as now, the worl
