Firing Area 918: This is good news, but will it make a difference?

On May 4, the day before Israel’s 74th Independence Day (Yom Haatzma’ut), the Supreme Court handed down a decision in a case that has long been awaited: the legality or illegality of the closure of land in the South Hebron Hills referred to as Firing Area 918, and the expulsion of the population that has […]

El-Mufaqara, Avigayil, and Havat Maon: Where did my anger get me?

This is a story borne out of anger. I was angry at the apparent one-sidedness of the reporting at what happened at el-Mufaqara and the way it seemed everyone I knew accepted the media reports as unadulterated truth. It is a story of how I found a crack in the wall and did not give […]

A Jew, An Arab and A Druze. Not a Joke. A True Story.

Sometimes we come across unexpected pearls when doing field research for an article. During an interview with a resident of Avigayil, a community in the South Hebron Hills in Judea-Samaria, I was shown a short piece written last year by Benjamin Bodenhaymer, the security coordinator for Avigayil. He goes by the nickname, Budi. I wanted […]

Proof of Incitement: Add these Israeli NGOs to the list of terrorist organizations?

Yesterday, in an article published in United with Israel, I raised the possibility that Jewish leftists were on hand at Susya soley for the purposes of recording the violence and making the false accusation that settlers attacked Arabs in a playground, chasing the children away. It is logical to assume that the activists did not […]