Meirja.

Thanks for the interesting link and welcome to the Cafe.
Your blog will probably disappear down the TPMCafe black hole as reader-generated blogs about "serious" subjects are wont to do these days.

Hopefully, you will post on this topic on the few blogs by "official" Cafe contributers that address these issues; MJ Rosenburg, Etzioni Avishai and Daniel Levy. Your contributions will have the higher profile they deserve.

Unfortunately, given the present circumstances, the focus on the economy and the rising tensions surrounding the upcoming election are diverting attention from important topics such as our ME policies. Hopefully post-election, we will be able to return to some semblance of what used to be fairly informative discussions on deserving subjects such as this one.

BTW, there are ongoing discussions between Arabs (of Syrian, Lebanese, Egyptian, ? heritage) and Israelis (a few) on Joshua Landis' blog "Syria Comment". The conversations, while sometimes contentious, are deliberately respectful and you, as another Israeli, would be most welcome there.

Landis and others do a great job of selecting articles/analysis relevent to issues and events affecting the region. The resulting discussions among those intimately familiar with the ME are invaluable "value added".
http://joshualandis.com/blog/

That said, TPMCafe could benefit from some Israeli voices other than that of the hard right.