Yes he is. Though we don't agree, at least we can talk to each other ABOUT THE MATTER IN HAND.

We are not talking about religion because this particular conflict has nothing to do with religion, and it's this conflict we're supposed to be talking about if only you'd allow it. It's more about decades of discrimination, blockades, invasions, imprisonment without trial, razing of Palestinian villages, stealing of land for settlements and a whole host of other grievances that have finally come to the surface. That in no way justifies the brutality shown by Hamas, but it does remind us, as I've said several times now, that unconditional support for Israel, along with the sidelining of the long history of Israel's repression of the Palestinians, is the way of looking at this conflict that I simply can't agree with.