TO be a judge, you sometimes need to be a good acrobat. You must be able to walk a tightrope between the law on one hand and, on the other, the inclinations of the heart or political exigencies or a…
Category: Separation Barrier
Confrontations and Conversations in Bil’in
LEGEND has it that the name Bil’in comes from the Arabic bila-ein, “no spring.” For indeed, this West Bank village lacks a water source of its own. On the other hand, the village is flooded with currents of another kind: the…
Catch 67 in Jerusalem
Since early 2004, there has been a sharp reduction in suicide attacks against Israelis. Some are inclined to link this fact to the separation barrier that Israel has built in the northwestern part of the West Bank. Yet the barrier…