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there could eventually lead to a South African-style apartheid system. Boycotts could help to change that. Already, prominent Israeli writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua have refused to visit the settlement of Ariel. We should support their efforts because persuading companies and people
s to be caught between the jaws of a pincer. On the one hand, the Israeli government is erasing the "green line" that separates Israel proper from the West Bank. In 1980, roughly 12,000 Jews lived in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem). Today, government subsidies have helped swell that number to more
South African-style apartheid system. EFTA_R1_00224930 EFTA01840337 Boycotts could help to change that. Already, prominent Israeli writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua have refused to visit the settlement of Ariel. We should support their efforts because persuading companies and people
is to be caught between the jaws of a pincer. On the one hand, the Israeli government is erasing the "green line" that separates Israel proper from the West Bank. In 1980, roughly 12,000 Jews lived in the West Bank (excluding East EFTA_R1_00224927 EFTA01840334 Jerusalem). Today, government subsidies have
rce could not hold in check. For us, and certainly for me, the Palestinians became essentially a security issue. As one of Israel’s finest novelists, David Grossman, would lay bare in a bestselling book of reportage called The Yellow Wind, about a year into the intifada, we had ceased to see the human effects of
would be in charge of one of Israel’s three regional military commands, and we were based on the edge of Jerusalem, with security responsibility for the West Bank. This was my first direct exposure to the combustible mix of restive Palestinians and the growing number of Jewish settlers. Our main brief was to p
rce could not hold in check. For us, and certainly for me, the Palestinians became essentially a security issue. As one of Israel's finest novelists, David Grossman, would lay bare in a bestselling book of reportage called The Yellow Wind, about a year into the intifada, we had ceased to see the human effects of
would be in charge of one of Israel's three regional military commands, and we were based on the edge of Jerusalem, with security responsibility for the West Bank. This was my first direct exposure to the combustible mix of restive Palestinians and the growing number of Jewish settlers. Our main brief was to pr
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