Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.

Focusing on what you don’t want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

It's easier to be healthy in Hawaii than it is, almost anywhere else I've lived. You spend a lot of time outside, in the ocean and on the beach.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess