Israel Diaries

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Daqamseh’s Release: Why Are 117 MKs Keeping Their Mouths Shut?

It is two weeks after Ahmed Daqamseh’s release — you remember: the murderer of 7 Israeli 13-year-old girls — and I still have a question. Search Twitter for reactions to Daqamseh’s release on the part of our elected representatives and you are met with almost absolute radio silence. It is true that Minister Without Portfolio […]

Daqamseh’s Mother and Defeated Heroes

Moroccan writer and intellectual, Al-Saleh Bu-Walid, gives reason to hope that sanity may one day come to reign in our unstable and hate-filled part of the world in spite of the likes of Daqamseh’s mother. He was participating in a studio discussion on  a TV programme hosted by Al Jazeera in July 2011, entitled “The […]