Reading the responses to my previous post, I realized that some people may have misunderstood the point I was trying to make. It was not my intention to take a partisan political position. Tomer is not meant to represent all leftists, nor are David's words supposed to represent the beliefs of all religious settlers.

They are individuals, not axioms.

I was trying to convey the idea that too often we assume things about people because of where they live, how they dress or what they do for a living, and that mostly we're wrong. So Tomer walks the walk of the liberal humanist, but his words reveal that he tends to be a reactionary. As for David, a lot of people would assume that because he chose to live in Gush Katif, and is an Orthodox Jew, he would be radically anti-Arab and against giving up territory to the Palestinians; in fact David's opinions turned out to be far closer to liberal humanist ideals than Tomer's. But as he said, "I speak only for myself."

And so I pull out that old Buddhist quote that I used in my first-ever post: "keep your know-nothing mind."

Next post: Thelma and Louise go to Gaza.