When I first visited the Golan Heights as a reporter a few weeks after Israel captured it in 1967 and walked through the rubble of what remained of the Syrian army, I could not imagine that 42 years later, the territory would still be central to a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But to read [...]
News From the Muddled East
April 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: barack obama · Binyamin Netanyahu · frank stanton · golan heights · india · israel · kashmir · middle east · New Yorker · pakistan · seymour hersh · syria
Letter From Beersheva
January 8th, 2009 No Comments
Faye Bittker is a friend of mine as she is of my daughter’s, both of whom work in the administration of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Faye has been a journalist and I asked her for impressions of the crisis that affects all Israeli families living within range of the prolonged rocket attacks [...]
Tags: ashdod · ashkelon · beersheva · ben-gurion university · faye bittker · gaza · gedera · hamas · israel · israel gaza airstrikes · Israeli-Palestinian conflict · negev · sderot
