Amos Oz is a prominent Israeli journalist, novelist and professor. His op-ed piece in today’s (June 2) New York Times is a cogent analysis of why his nation’s action against ships bringing relief supplies to Gaza was wrongheaded. But his words go beyond this tragic incident and apply to any nation considering the use of military force. He wrote that “force has its limits” and should be used as a last resort. However, he continued, “since the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel has been fixated [...]

My family has been rooted in Arizona since the 1880s, but our process of uprooting began in 1993 when my oldest daughter moved to North Carolina after college. Over the next 20 years, my wife and I, our youngest daughter and finally my mother all followed her path. I, however, clung to the home of my heritage by serving on an Arizona-based corporate board that took me back eight to ten times each year. But that final strand of the Jamieson Arizona root was pulled [...]

Many men of my generation pause each memorial day to remember our Viet Nam-era friends and colleagues who lost their lives in war. My memory today is of my friend Jim Masters, an intelligence officer in the Navy who died when his plane was shot down near De Nang. Jim and I reported for duty at the Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan on the same day in December of 1967. He was married but his wife Becky wouldn’t arrive for a few weeks, and [...]