Archive for September, 2010

Ending the Freeze

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Here we go again.

You do not have to be a prophet to guess the headlines that will emerge in about two weeks:

“Israeli Settlement Plans Derail Peace Process”

“U.S. Angry Over Israeli Building”

“Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace” (Whoops – Time Magazine jumped the gun and used that one already.)

Yes, the ten month settlement freeze will soon come to an end without, as predicted, producing anything remotely resembling a Palestinian concession. No, I do not believe that agreeing to speak with Israel in peace summits should qualify. Israel will once again be blamed for destroying the hopes of all people in the Middle East for a better future for their children.

But what about the other freeze that will be extended?

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Lives — Not Statistics

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Real people, not statistics

This morning, one of our friends here in Neve Daniel sent me this e-mail:

Hi – I am sitting here crying because one of the women murdered tonight was my son’s gannenet. Yehuda is six and is mentally retarded – his teachers are our world because they bring him such joy when the world is such an overwhelming and confusing place. Cochava was an angel, and we were with her an hour before she died – she was on her way home from the gan welcome back orientation when she was murdered.

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