WHERE RACISM takes root, it must be identified. Blindness to it is a common but dangerous blight. Equally common are the ploys used to excuse it. The most recent decision of Israel’s High Court of Justice, approving the “Law of…
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Watching IDF Checkpoints
“No one will be able to say, ‘I didn’t know.’” IMAGINE a cold concrete shed, sides open to the elements, divided into stalls by low walls, with metal turnstiles at either end. The cattle gather at one end, lowing and…
The Mutilation of the Olive Trees
With contributions by Orli Karinis of “Friends to the Villages,” an Israeli voluntary organization active in the Nablus area. The autumn of 2005 saw a poor olive harvest both locally and abroad. In the West Bank, however, that was the…
Can’t Get Enough of Sharon
NOW that the fog has lifted from the disengagement plan in Gaza, the question remains, “Is this what the Left had in mind when it ceased to fear Sharon and began loving ‘Arik’?” Welcome to Gaza Prison. No one enters…