Israel Diaries

Independent investigative journalism

Planting a tree is like planting a flag

Yesterday afternoon (7 Nov), Elchanan Gruner, a journalist with HaKol HaYehudi, uploaded a video onto “X” in which we see an IDF soldier planting a tree in Gaza near the uprooted Israeli communities of Dugit and Elei Sinai. That, in itself, is a remarkable act which I applaud. It reminded me of the American astronauts […]

Hamas Now Begging For What Gaza Was Freely Offered in 2005

Until 2005, Israeli soldiers roamed the Gaza Strip trying to keep order among people who hated them. Naturally. I would also hate a foreign military keeping me from travelling freely from place to place within an area I considered my own. True, there were places of work for many of the Gazan people in the […]