Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Today was a productive Saturday. I started the day saying I was going to do some school work and actually did that. I got all my reading for the past week done so that is a great accomplishment. I got to reading an article by David Remnick about a newspaper in Israel called Haaretz. I read the piece in the most recent edition of the New Yorker. Yes, I read the New Yorker now. I don't know why I feel some sort of elitism when I contemplate that fact. In any event, the article was quite interesting as New Yorker pieces tend to be. It made me think about how much I don't know about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I hear snippets about the issues in the news, but those are just sound bites. The only way to really get a feel for the issues would be for me to read more deeply as I did today. I think its true what Nicholas Carr says about our generation. We read wide, but not deep. I think that subscribing to the New Yorker is one of the best things I could have done to reverse that trend in my own life.