It’s soldiers like the one Ahed Tamimi slapped that give Israel the moral high-ground in an area where that is constantly put into question.
What is happening in Nabi Saleh encapsulates the ineluctable and self-defeating logic of Israeli occupation.
Ali Gharib’s rather long tirade against my recent blog post in the Forward on Ben Ehrenreich’s New York Times magazine story deserves a brief response.
A New York Times magazine cover story is premised on the idea that peaceful protest could end the occupation. Trouble is: the author is biased and the protests aren’t non-violent.