Haim Watzman
By Haim Watzman
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Opinion Bad War, Good Soldiers
I recently bumped into a mild-mannered, bookish paratrooper I know. He had come home to Jerusalem for a short weekend after spending two weeks in Gaza. I didn’t know what to expect when I asked him what he thought of the war. I thought I might hear him echo my own thoughts, and say that…
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Opinion Profaning a Holy City
Hebron this month resembled nothing so much as Jerusalem in the summer of 70 C.E. Then, as now, Jewish extremists battled the duly constituted leadership of the people, taking the law into their own hands and throwing morality to the wind. When Jewish hatred desecrated Jerusalem that fateful summer 1,938 years ago, the Jewish people…
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Opinion Shut Down Army Programs for Diaspora Youth
On my last trip to the United States, I met a young man who told me that he wanted to serve in the Israeli army. I told him to go to hell. Not in such blunt terms, of course. But my response caught the guy by surprise. After all, I’m the author of a memoir…
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