Dennis Ross and a Ceasefire in Gaza

Politics is something I'll try to get into as little as possible. But sometimes it's unavoidable. One topic I feel very strongly about is Israel's right to exist unthreatened in the Middle East. I have no doubt that if Mexico was lobbing rockets into Texas (or Spain to France), the US would respond with a (justified) brute force. That being said, any talk of a Ceasefire, as this Politico article says, is always a welcome change. I'm all for peace.

The part of this article that intrigues me the most is the link to Barack Obama's foreign policy team member, Dennis Ross. Dennis Ross became a Brandeis professor right after I decided that I had no interest in pursuing a politics degree at Brandeis. I took a class with Robert Reich and it's cool to see him in pictures like the one below (so easy to point out, too at 4" 10 1/2!) or on Conan (see that video if you haven't) or on The Daily Show. Thomas Friedman led a small group discussion I was in, but I was abroad for his class at Brandeis. Ben Brandzel was the president of the student government and years later I tuned into to see him on CSPAN one day introducing a speaker for MoveOn.org or saw him write an article for the Huffington Post. I just think it's cool when people I was around at Brandeis end up in the news...