Where The Line Is Drawn XXI

"Perhaps it was a mistake not to bring up the subject of how [Henry] could situate his office in a house that had been taken by force, with no compensation paid to its original owners. Yet somehow we had to conduct our friendship on a plane above and outside politics. How long this would be possible, I didn't know. I suppose it would depend on whether I could remain calm." (p. 158)

There is a spectrum of possible responses from not caring how Henry had acquired the building to severing all contact with Henry - to bombing his office. Shehadeh is somewhere on the spectrum between not caring and severing contact. Some people think that anything that a government does is right.