It turned out that after we went back to our rooms at night, Alex had been giving Greg lectures in Arab-Israeli affairs. A self-proclaimed Zionist, he came at the issue from a different vantage point than I did, to say the least. A few days earlier he’d asked if I was planning to do an H.I.T. list on Israel. “I thought about it,” I told him, though really I hadn’t. “But I’ve got too many people I’d like to do first.” “Alex says that you’re so pissed off all the time because you think you’re entitled to the land,” Greg continued, “but that the Torah promised it to his people.”
