Moral Tragedies and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Excerpt: “Why are we inclined to believe in moral tragedies? Because this is somewhat tempting in a comforting sort of way: the world presumably consists of values that can’t all be realised at the same time. You can have liberty and equality but not both at the same time, at least not always. I think a reason for this powerful belief is because one often feels stuck, as General Moshe did, and when one is stuck, one tends to believe in the status quo. But there is no reason that this must be inevitable. Surely, when things look intractable, they may not actually be so, and there must be a way out”