Disengagement is not an option, because if you let local jihad survive, it becomes international jihad.

How these events, actually, are fundamentally disruptive and they're disruptive, not because they deal with issues of disenfranchisement, and disillusion, and disengagement, because that's too simple.

The second is the Qassamits, young women who are engaged in combat training. Hamas timed these revelations with the disengagement to create the impression that its intensifying military strategy had prevailed.

I found myself surrounded by people who celebrated intellectualism and engagement, and who thought that my ironic oh so cool disengagement wasn't clever, or funny, but, like, it was a simple and unspectacular response to very complicated and compelling problems.

My main message is if we can redefine apathy, not as some kind of internal syndrome, but as a complex web of cultural barriers that reinforces disengagement, and if we can clearly define, clearly identify what those obstacles are, and then if we can work together collectively to dismantle those obstacles, then anything is possible.