Mara Rudman
By Mara Rudman
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Opinion Whither Hamas, and With It the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
The day after Hamas’s “Reform and Change” list swept last week’s Palestinian Legislative Council elections, two 20-something Palestinian women staffing our international observer delegation from the National Democratic Institute started peppering me with questions. How quickly could the United States pull the plug on the democracy assistance provided by the National Democratic Institute, the International…
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Opinion A Light Unto the Nations
‘Jews don’t evacuate Jews” was the slogan on the orange bumper stickers affixed to cars, waved about on banners that crowded the landscape, and shouted by protesters as we drove back into Jerusalem on August 18, after a long day in the Gaza Strip. I asked my Palestinian driver, a longtime Jerusalem resident, to tell…
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