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Hey Nate,

You hired me as an intern at BP. It has been cool watching your meteoric rise since then. Do you miss baseball or is political analysis truly your new passion? Do you see PECOTA as becoming outdated with newer projection models being developed or is it a system that will continue to be relevant? Would you trade Dylan Bundy for Justin Upton?

I'm a secular american-jew that has been past the green line in gaza, and lost a cousin to a Hamas attack that I wasn't present for by sheer luck.

I think you are right that people on both sides speaking out together in the name of peace is the best approach. Thank you for your first hand account. I think the reason Netanyahu likes to call them terror tunnels is because it ignores the fact that many of them were constructed because of the blockade and to supplement the economy (even if it was corrupt and still funneling military supplies). Just like he calls his victims human shields, and not just humans.

I think a lot of Jews (in Israel and the diaspora) believe that Israel should exist because the Jews need a homeland. We're taught how the pioneers transformed the land and made it vital. So there is an undertone that it was a wasteland before and because we made it so nice it is ours now. More than anything though, I think it's the history of Jewish persecution (even before WWII) that leads to most support of Zionism.

insanely enough, these are the same people on facebook telling 'spoiled americans' how easy they have it and to trust the people with ties to a war-torn area to have the right opinions on war.

I already saw your answer about why you wanted to do surgery, but how did you come to pediatrics specifically? I'm a first year med student-very interested in going into some form of minimally invasive surgery, but I have no idea what field yet.

Hi zav, I agree, and I think that this is what hinders rational thought on both sides. My cousins father became so radical I don't even understand how he can believe what he says.

I think I meant the tunnels coming from Egypt, but after writing my reply realized that the tunnels into Israel are a completely different beast. I agree about equal rights, and I think that will continue to be an issue. I have seen some serious racism in Israel (against african americans - ethiopian jews, etc). The trick is teaching people there that they can have their own homeland and also coexist with others. We focus too much on differences; not enough on similarities.