Word: israelism
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...cave, but its the only way he can stay on his farm. The Palestinian farmer, 48, inherited the property in the village of Wallajeh, on the southern edge of Jerusalem, from his father and his grandfather but had to flee amid the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel occupied the place. In 1999, he returned to Wallajeh and the farm, risking constant arrest and defying an Israeli decision to annex it to Jerusalem. Most nights of the week, he says, he spends in the cave he slept in as a child. But now, he may even lose the cave...
...Tunnel Vision Re "Underworld" [nov. 2]: on a visit to Gaza, I was struck by the sense of gruesome satisfaction Israeli soldiers seemed to derive from controlling their neighbors' quality of living. Allowing Palestinians to revive their economy would create an atmosphere conducive to peace. Yet Israel has turned this tiny stretch of land into the world's biggest open-air prison. Annette Thomas, Clarkston, Mich...
...TIME's report on the Gaza strip tunnels placed the onus solely on Israel's "suffocating blockade on Gaza's land and sea borders" - completely ignoring Egypt's blockade on its Gaza border, probably instated because of the same realistic security concerns Israel has. Without Egypt's blockade, there would be no need for the tunnels. Harry Gartzman, Philadelphia...
...Gazans aren't digging for fun: it is a matter directly related to their lives. What does Israel earn from trying to prevent a hungry person from eating? I really hope that these meaningless hostilities will fade. Jiwon Kwak, Seoul
...first few pages of results - all because one day last year she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway alone. A newspaper column she wrote about it somehow ignited a global firestorm over what constitutes reasonable risk. She had reporters calling from China, Israel, Australia, Malta. ("Malta! An island!" she marvels. "Who's stalking the kids there? Pirates?") Skenazy decided to fight back, arguing that we have lost our ability to assess risk. By worrying about the wrong things, we do actual damage to our children, raising them to be anxious and unadventurous...