Feature: Welcome to Aron's Israel Peace Weblog!

Background

Since the beginning of the current Intifada, I have been having email-based discussions with friends and family. I would read an article and send it to them, or vice versa, and on occassion a flurry of back and forth emails would follow.

Recently, as part of my peace activities, I have been giving lectures at various venues. After my talks, people approach me and ask for resources they can refer to, as well as for materials I have written. My son Asaf has also asked me to write materials for his use.

The idea of sitting down and writing extended articles seemed a daunting task. My life is busy enough, without having to devote big chunks of time to writing.

The weblog format provides an ideal solution. It allows me to write short commentaries on articles I find of interest, to share these comments and articles with family, friends and acquaintenances, and provides a place to discuss all this. Best of all, it will actually reduce the time I spend on doing this stuff, since I can just refer people to the weblog instead of writing yet another email.

Who Gets to Post

To minimimize the time I spend here, I decided that only I will post, with very rare exceptions for guest posters. I won't open it up for discussion, as many weblogs do. I just don't have the time to deal with that. If you have suggestions or comments, you can email me at peace@aronst.org

Correspondence

Attribution request

If you quote anything from this site, please make sure that you provide an appropriate attribution. Similarly, I will make every effort to properly credit articles I quote. I also prefer to make a direct link, but because of archiving policies, I sometimes have to make copies of the article. I would assume this usage clearly falls under "fair use." However, if any writer/publisher strongly objects, I will remove the article I have copied.

Technology

For those who are interested, this weblog is based on open source software. It uses the great stuff developed by the guys at Squishdot and Zope.

Proper Link

When I first launched this site, I was running it off my family address. Once the site grew in size and popularity, I decided to get it a URL of its own (plus my family name is quite complicated). The problem now is, that people who have bookmarked the site from the original URL, often get broken link messages when they click on article hyperlinks.

The solution is quite simple. Change your bookmark to:

http://www.israelblog.org

All articles will then work properly, both the old and new. Once again, my thanks to all the people who write me with words of praise and encouragement.

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