Sparing no page, Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace captures the cycle of popular passion as it erupts forth in war and wanes in peace creating an appropriate lens through which to survey the rekindling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tolstoy chronicles how war transforms Russia and the Russians by following various aristocratic families—the Rostovs, the Bezukhovs, … Continue reading Flaring Up: “War and Peace” and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict