For far too long political debate has been reduced to name-calling and identity labelling with facts and reasoned arguments taking second place--consigning civilised discourse and the exchange of ideas and opinions into the trash bin.
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has taken a positive step in reversing this burgeoning practice of personal denigration and arbitrary dismissal of opinions of those with whom one doesn't agree--in setting out her opinion on resolving the Arab-Jewish conflict in an op-ed article in the Washington Post on 17 March.