In Israel, swimming against the current of inter-ethnic hatred, there are many initiatives for coexistence and cooperation, some of them new or growing in reaction to the hatred.

I am sad that one of them operates using the digital dis-service WhatsApp. If I were there, I could laud the spirit of it while declining to participate or promote that actual activity because of that techoethical issue.

There is also the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said for the specific goal of bringing the two peoples together.