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A Short Trip to the West Bank, Part 1
Shortly after I arrived in Tel Aviv two weeks ago I was invited to take a drive to the West Bank with the staff from the B’tselem USA office who were in Israel for a week of meetings and updates. They...
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Elad and Jewish Settlement in Silwan
Last week on January 2nd I posted a column about how the Jewish National Fund (JNF) has been evicting long-time Palestinian residents and replacing them with far-right Jewish settlers in the...
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A Virtual Tour of East Jerusalem
Ten days ago I went on a drive through East Jerusalem with Ir Amim, a human rights NGO that works to protect the rights of all of Jerusalem’s residents and to prevent the establishment of facts on the...
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A Tale of Two Cities
“The day Jerusalem was liberated was the day that the city heaved a sigh of relief and began to spread its wings, for the benefit of its Arab and Jewish residents alike….We will never again allow...
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Hope and Reconciliation
This past weekend there were two things I encountered that gave me hope – hope for the future of a peaceful Middle East. Hope #1 – Friday’s Haaretz Magazine had a story about teaching the philosophy of...
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Singing to the Soldiers
There we were, standing on the edge of the ledge facing a line of armed-to-the-teeth Israeli soldiers 15 feet away from us, as if our scraggily band of middle-aged folks with a sprinkling of...
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The Negev: A Bedouin Village versus a JNF Forest
There was a clear blue sky after many days of rain when we drove to Al-Arakib near Be’er Sheva down in the Negev. The air was cool but the sun was strong. All around us the desert was in bloom as we...
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Good News, Bad News, and some Intriguing Political Analysis
There was lots of interesting news during the past several days while I took a short vacation to drive through the Galilee where, after this winter’s torrential rains, yellow and blue wildflowers cover...
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