For instance, we know in other countries that there is a powerful connection between nationalism and militarization, and the roles assigned to men and women in the name of traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. We believe it's important to discuss these roles in the U.S. and international context.

We hope to raise awareness and consciousness regarding some of the broader issues that may not receive the kind of public discussion and debate that we believe is necessary,

For example, within the U.S. military today there arise all kinds of questions about what the boundaries are for masculinity and femininity. What happens when you have a woman soldier who is balancing career, family and service to country? What does that do to the notion of femininity?

My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs. spoken on the Terry Gross Show .. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.