Today’s book salon is unexpectedly timely. With this weekend’s startling Washington Post opinion piece by Judge Goldstone which seems to contradict the factual findings of the report of The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, controversy over “The Goldstone Report” on Operation Cast Lead is in the news once again.

While Christian Palestinians are blocked from the traditional Easter celebrations in Jerusalem, Gaza remains under siege and under threat of another Operation Cast Lead.