Hard Lessons from a Priest Who Stayed in Gaza
By Auguste Meyrat In the interest of diplomacy and personal relations, it's normally a good idea to follow the adage, "If you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all." But when it comes to assessing challenging and complex situations, this advice should be flipped: "If you can't say anything critical or incisive or even just useful, don't say anything at all." All too often, good-hearted people will smother a truthful analysis with platitudes that obscure issues and prevent potential solutions. Such, alas, is the case with the well-meaning but ultimately…
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