Israel Diaries

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Terrorism Tourism (Or: What to do near Gaza on a Friday morning.)

“You aren’t really going there, are you?” asked one friend when she heard that I was planning on driving down toward Gaza yesterday morning (11 May 2018) to see for myself what was going on near the border fence between Israel and Gaza. “Please don’t,” said another. “Looking forward to hearing all about it afterward,” […]

Don’t pretend to be surprised Arabs crossed the Gaza border fence

The image of the anticipated thousands of Arabs walking across the Gaza border on the eve of Passover is just too ironic for words. And about the test balloons they sent over this past week — the four separate cases of Arab infiltrators crossing over from Gaza into Israel — do not believe army or […]